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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 17 Jun 91 14:50:20 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.123525.1485@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>The Mac System 7 appears to have finally caught up with the 10 year old
>Xerox Star here, and implemented drag-and-drop. There is some sort of gotcha
>in the way it's implemented, apparently, based on Evan's description...
>apparently you can only drop a file on the app that created it unless you
>do something with ResEdit.

There is no gotcha.  Drag and drop works with any file and its creator (if
the file has its creator set.)  ResEdit is only needed if you want to add
resources to a program to allow it to accept files that it can translate but
did not create.  I just dragged a text file created by an automated comm 
program to Word and it was opened normally.