Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future) Message-ID: <1991Jun19.000825.23509@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 19 Jun 91 00:08:25 GMT References: <1991Jun16.214309.18102@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun17.123525.1485@sugar.hackercorp.com> <62@ryptyde.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 29 Me: > "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." In article <62@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes: > That's bull. Maybe if you would've read it properly. Well, actually, he sort of explained it poorly. And even he admits it's a kludge. > This is impossible on the Amiga, of course, Of course. It's impossible to pass a file to an application when you launch it (clue: it's not... you use shift-doubleclick). > as they don't HAVE resources Thank god, we don't have to play games with the likes of BinHex to interoperate with normal systems. What we *do* have is standard interchange formats, something the Mac doesn't. Instead of saying "this is a MacPaint file" we say "This is an interleaved bitmap". Much more useful. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"