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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: <72@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 91 10:07:58 GMT
References: <1991Jun16.214309.18102@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun17.123525.1485@sugar.hackercorp.com> <62@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun19.000825.23509@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Organization: Ryptyde Timesharing (ryptyde.cts.com)
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Responding to the following:
 
"> 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."
 
1)  I'm sorry if that sounded like a flame, I must have had too much fruit
that day. :-)
 
2)  No, it's not a kludge. FREF resources have been used as long as I can
remember to denote what apps can open what types of files.
 
"> 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)."
 
I meant that it's impossible for the Workbench to know what types of files
another app can open (unless more than one file can be created as a
reference to each file?), and thus easily determine what can be dropped on
what.
 
"> 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."
 
hehe. You WISH you had resources! :-)  I hate it when things akin to
this is used as an argument. "I'm glad we don't have that feature, because
we wouldn't know how to handle it anyway, nor would we want to. Too 
troublesome to have that kind of power". Yes, our file system is highly
nonstandard, but very powerful.