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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface)
Keywords: window human computer interface
Message-ID: <1744@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 08:39:11 GMT
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In article <1740@ssc-vax.UUCP>, benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) writes:
> Your cursor is *IN* that window. That is you are explicitly defining
> the environment you want your keyboard input and mouse input to go to.
Let me be more exact...you put your mouse arrow within a window and the 
hollow cursor (Sun's have more than one cursor - a hollow cursor indicates
dormancy - versus a filled cursor which indicates activity) becomes filled
(indicating that you can start typing).