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From: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac)
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Subject: Re: Dialog interface (was Re: Movable-Modal WDEF 1.01 (LONG))
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Date: 12 Mar 90 16:30:39 GMT
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In article <16589@well.sf.ca.us> svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
>	I should also point out that FullWrite was the first application
>(that I am aware of) to make menus avail inside of modal dialogs - but they
>also wrote their own menu and window managers so they could do that since they
>were their own 'Interface'...

Unless FullWrite is much older than I know, I think this honor goes to
the MDS Assembler and Linker, which let you use the menus (at least to
Quit or Transfer) during the GetFile dialog.  I believe this was true in
the earliest version of MDS (0.6, sometime in 1984?) that I ever saw.
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