🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Aug10.160243.740@afs.com> greg@afs.com writes:
>In article <1992Aug8.230323.340@prim> prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave  
>Griffiths) writes:
>> 
>> My dream is to be able to attach a little Post-it window to any document
>> displayed in any application.
>> [remainder deleted]
>
>I think file-based NeXTlinks will work sort of this way in 3.0, as least  
>from what I remember at NeXTworld Expo. Documents will follow the .rtfd  
>standard, where each 'file' is actually a directory wrapper for its  
>contents, which may include images (in the case of .rtfd) and links  
>(NXSelection objects). So I guess you could use this as a sort-of post-it,  
>although it would appear somewhere within the body of the document in both  
>places (source and destination).
>

From what you say it sounds like it only applies to RTF files, and not to
WordPerfect, WriteNow, Adobe Illustrator, Improv etc etc documents. I can't
think how my suggestion could be implemented without a special (object-
oriented?) file system. Anybody know what NeXT's plans are for 4.0?

Dave Griffiths