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Article #12658Re: Weird stuff, or "Will this work under 1.4?"
From: Philip Hingston
Date: Sun, 14 May 1989 09:51
Date: Sun, 14 May 1989 09:51
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In article <15756@gryphon.COM>, gregmarq@pnet02.cts.com (Greg Marquez) writes: > Hows about creating a 'PROJECT' icon, with the default tool set > to MyPaint. Double click on that, up comes MyPaint. Now name it > <data drawer>.info. Now drag the icon to a new home. > > QUESTION 1: Has anyone else done this before? > > QUESTION 2: Will it die a horrible and grissly death under 1.4? (CATS?) > In answer to QUESTION 1. Yes, I have. In my case I wrote a tool for managing C programming projects. I put all the source in a directory and made my program the default tool for a project icon attached to the directory. I think this is a really neat way to package the files needed for a project. I don't know the answer to QUESTION 2, but if it's not strictly legal, why not make it so? How about it, oh makers of the law? Philip Hingston
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari!goanna!phi From: phi@goanna.oz (Philip Hingston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Weird stuff, or "Will this work under 1.4?" Summary: Yes, I did this too. Message-ID: <2100@goanna.oz> Date: 14 May 89 09:51:19 GMT References: <15756@gryphon.COM> Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 18