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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Da to launch applications
Message-ID: <237@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 27 Oct 88 21:56:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: lloyd.237
References: <983@naucse.UUCP> <10598@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
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In article <10598@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> sage@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (David Martosko '91) writes:
>In article <983@naucse.UUCP> rwi@naucse.UUCP (Robert Wier) writes:
>>
>> Can anyone tell me if there is a PD (or otherwise) DA which will
>> launch regular applications (ie, like MacWrite).  I'd like to see
... 
>
>Well, Disktop by CE software is a finder replacement-DA that lets you put
...
>Also, OnCUE by IMI software is an INIT that does a similar thing.  It puts
...
>My preference for an application launcher is OnCUE, because it also lets
>you attach DOCUMENTS to the applications in its list.  So you can select
>Word or MacWrite, for instance, and then get a list of documents (which you
>specify), from which you select what to open.

The current commercial version of DiskTop lets you put both documents
and applications in its menu.  You can even be in an application and
select one of its documents and it will open correctly.  Also anything
you don't put in the main DiskTop menu you can still open by
double-clicking once you have found it using DiskTop.  

For applications that confuse DiskTop's searching for the `Open...'
menu choice there is a way to add more menu choices that it will also
try.

I also use it with HierDA and love the combination.

My only gripe is I had hoped I could use DiskTop as a Finder
replacement under MultiFinder (I really do like the Finder, I just
wish I had RAM for it).  I haven't been able to make that work.
DiskTop refuses to launch things once I blow away the Finder.

Kent Borg
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