Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site unicus.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!yetti!unicus!rae
From: rae@unicus.UUCP (Clith de T'nir a.k.a. Reid Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Better Windows?
Message-ID: <569@unicus.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-May-87 17:22:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: unicus.569
Posted: Sat May 23 17:22:44 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 24-May-87 08:35:28 EDT
References: <8705130929.AA17766@cogsci.berkeley.edu> <1987May14.125051.3647@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <865@elrond.CalComp.COM>
Reply-To: rae@unicus.UUCP (Clith de T'nir a.k.a. Reid Ellis)
Organization: Unicus Software Inc.
Lines: 38
Keywords: mpw finder selection
Summary: Finder limitations in selection
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.mac:3437 comp.windows.x:805

In article <865@elrond.CalComp.COM> anson@elrond.UUCP (Ed Anson) writes:
>...  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.

  To expand briefly -- when multiple documents of the same type are selected,
the 'owning' application runs when the collection is double-clicked.  This
can be defeated by selecting an application as well, which will be run and
given the files, regardless of their type.

  The Finder's user interface for this is limited in two ways.
  1) You can't pass other applications in as arguments (for example, if
     you want to run 'unpit' to pack together several applications).
  2) You can't pass in documents from different folders without going
     through the somewhat tedious put-all-the-documents-ont-the-desktop,
     run-the-application, put-the-documents-away (with "Put Away" from the
     File menu in the Finder) cycle.

  These two limitations don't exist when running the MPW shell, of course,
since the command is the first 'word' on the line.  In this way, you can pass
in multiple applications from various folder to unpit to do with as you will.

(Note this assumes you have unpit 0.3.1, which lets you pack things on
startup by holding the option key down)

But then again, command-lines are what we're trying to get away from, aren't
we? :-)
--
	"Hey!  You're not Ricky Ricardo, you're
	a cop!  And those are potatoes."
					"Huh?  Hey -- the kid's right!
					You're under arrest, Pal!  Whew,
					you sure saved the day, kid."
Reid Ellis, aka Clith de T'nir
		{seismo!mnetor, utzoo!yetti}!unicus!rae	(uucp)
		mnetor!unicus!rae@seismo.css.gov	(arpa)