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From: stevep@wrq.com (Steve Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.195839.26050@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 19:58:39 GMT
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In article <1991Jun19.000825.23509@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Thank god, we don't have to play games with the likes of BinHex to interoperate
>with normal systems.

What games are these?  I don't play any games to transfer files between Macs,
PCs, Unix boxes, HP minis, or Vaxen.

>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.

Whereas the Mac is cursed with standards like TEXT, PICT, and numerous
others, all of which are self-identifying.  That's why drag-and-drop is NOT
a kludge.  You're confusing the simple steps needed to tell the Finder that
a pre-7.0 application can open non-native files with the actual implementation
of that feature.  Presumably, any new application will contain an exhaustive
list of types it understands, now that drag-and-drop is available.
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