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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Better Windows? (multiple selection in icon interface)
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Date: Fri, 22-May-87 20:27:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 22 20:27:52 1987
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In article <8705150704.AA05423@cogsci.berkeley.edu> bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>You just described a feature of the Macintosh "Finder".  In certain 
>situations you may selct several files then chose "print" or such from a
>finder menu.

You can also double-click on an application.  If it is one that can
handle multiple files, it will usually open all of them.  If it can
only deal with one file, it will open one of them.

Some applications, however, will do nasty things.  I had a situation
once where I had several font files and several text files in a window,
along with the font/da mover.  I selected all the files in the window,
and opened the font/da mover, figuring it would ignore the text files.

Well, it didn't ignore them.  It silently trashed them!  If I ever
meet the author of font/da mover in a dark alley...
-- 
Tim Smith		"Learn to juggle while it's still legal"
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