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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)
Keywords: Future, Amiga, etc.
Message-ID: <73@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 91 10:13:46 GMT
References: <1991Jun16.161917.13703@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun16.173031.23094@sugar.hackercorp.com> <61@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun18.125532.3766@NCoast.ORG>
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Organization: Ryptyde Timesharing (ryptyde.cts.com)
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Responding to the following:

"Sounds just like the Amiga to me. I can drag an icon onto the icon
editor's window and it will know to load the icon up. And the "icon alias"
sounds just like the "Leave Out" option of WorkBench too."

No, I don't mean loading a program by dragging an icon, nor do I mean
opening a document with its application the same way. I mean making
another application (whether presently open or not) open a document
that IT DIDN'T CREATE, and having the OS know what KINDS of files
every application supports, so it doesn't let users open say a sound
file into a Paint program (the Paint program would just ignore that
anyway).