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From: anson@elrond.CalComp.COM (Ed Anson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Better Windows?
Message-ID: <865@elrond.CalComp.COM>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 13:19:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 13:19:27 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 02:53:03 EDT
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Reply-To: anson@elrond.UUCP (Ed Anson)
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In article <1987May14.125051.3647...@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Peter Santangeli) writes:
>
> One more idea. One of the reasons I often drop down to a command interpreter
>while using my ST is that I can pass multiple files as arguments to many
>programs (ex: cat a.t b.t > c.t).
> Wouldn't it make sense to be able to HIGHLIGHT these multiple files from
>the desktop by single clicking, and then ACTIVATE the program by double
>clicking on it. The result being the filenames (+ volumes/subdirectories?)
>being passed to the programs in argv,argc form.
>
The Finder *does* do essentially that.  The finder allows selection of 
multiple documents.  Double clicking on any of them causes the application
to be launched and passes the entire list of documents (including owners
and file types) to the application.  The application does what it will with
the information.

Take Word, for example.  Select several Word documents, double
click on one, and all are open in their respective windows.
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