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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <62@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 91 07:35:50 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.071908.8353@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun15.180607.10502@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun16.214309.18102@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun17.123525.1485@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Organization: Ryptyde Timesharing (ryptyde.cts.com)
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Responding to the following:

"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."

That's bull. Maybe if you would've read it properly. What he was LAUNCHING
was ResEdit. You can drop a file on any file that can open it. The OS knows
what kind of files another file can open by its FREF resources. This is 
impossible on the Amiga, of course, as they don't HAVE resources and have
to store even icons in seperate files. This feature is VERY useful for 
ResEdit in particular because it can open any type of file, and you can
drop any kind of file on it. There are also FREF types that tell the OS
that you can drag volumes and folders (directories) on them as well.