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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Keywords: Future, Amiga, etc.
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Date: 17 Jun 91 17:47:19 GMT
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In article <61@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:

>ResEdit has nothing to do with this. It's just a program that is being told
>to run the application he's dragging on it. Yes, pop-up menus and drag-and-

ResEdit is being used to EDIT the application being dragged to its alias's
icon.  In effect, applications are the documents of ResEdit.

>drop is built in. Open anything with anything else by dragging one thing
>on another. Isn't the Mac great? :-)

This is where ResEdit can also come in.  You cannot drag just any document
to any arbitrary application to open the doc.  You can use ResEdit to add
resources to the application to tell it what ADDITIONAL document types you
want the program to open.  In general, the application will come with those
resources pre-set, but ResEdit lets you extend that functionality.