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From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Keywords: Drag-and-drop, application start, programm changes
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.145847.16816@Sugar.NeoSoft.com>
Date: 23 Jun 91 14:58:47 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.134801.19644@ifi.unizh.ch> <1991Jun22.021136.315@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <96@ryptyde.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
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In article <96@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
> Will 2.0 cause applications that aren't 2.0 aware to open documents while
> they're running?

No. I suppose you could use a kludge to give the appearance of having them
do this. Personally, I'd rather not install such a prop and force application
programmers to update their code. The fewer kludges added in the name of
backwards compatibility the better... that's the philosophy that's held the
Mac back so badly.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"