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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What are menus?
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Date: 17 Jan 89 07:29:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Jan 17 01:29:00 1989


The Xerox Viewpoint (son-of-star) continues to take advantage of
"dropping" things on top of each other --

Dropping a file in the trash can deletes it.
Dropping a doc on a converter changes the format to something else.
Dropping a file on the printer prints it.
Dropping a program on the loader runs it (long story here....)
	(double-clicking only opens a document if the processor program is in
	memory, just about the opposite of multifinder, which doesn't like it
	if you double-click on something in memory)
Dropping a file on the outbasket mails it.


Too bad Apple doesn't provide this ability in the finder.