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From: rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Keywords: Future, Amiga, etc.
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.160550.27873@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 91 16:05:50 GMT
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In article <73@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>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).

 This is something the application should decid at run time, not the OS.
For instance, I can load executables into most Amiga text editors and
patch them. I can load IFF files and edit the headers if I want. I would
be really fustrated if the OS refused to let me drop ANY file into a 
text editor.

 I don't think the Mac's drag and drop allows you to drop an icon into
an Application's window and have it load it.

  The "icon alias" sounds like a link in the filesystem rather than 
a true alias done by software. This means the GUI has to parse more
files in the directory tree whereas a software alias would be
"instantaneous" (cause it wouldn't be saved n the directory)

  Now the Amiga has aliases, assigns, environment variables, and now
soft and hard links.



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