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From: rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <107@kas.helios.mn.org>
Date: 26 Jun 91 14:29:38 GMT
References: <62@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun19.000825.23509@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun19.195839.26050@milton.u.washington.edu>
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In article <1991Jun19.195839.26050@milton.u.washington.edu> stevep@wrq.com (Steve Poole) writes:
>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.

	Ahhhh, that's the grreat thing about standards, there's so MANY
	to choose from...

	Maybe an interchange format that has a type field and one file
	format would be a tad easier to handle? After all, just open
	one file that contains sound, graphics, text, binarys and
	look at the header record inside to see if it contains anything
	of interest to the app. Then again, maybe as many file types
	as RS232 standards is a better idea...

		-Rob