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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Idea for a unique delete?(for lack of a better description)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.021155.2322@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:11:55 GMT
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- In article <Bs2A49.Iwv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson) writes:
- >I was watching a ballgame and they did an ad. for the dirt devel hand vac.
- >It was on the big board cleaning up dirt(of coarse). At any rate, I thought
- >of an idea that would be better than the MAC trash can.
- >By using some combination of mouse buttons(it seems like os/2 has used most
- >already) your cursor turns into a vacuum cleaner and as you move it over
- >a file it sucks it up. You could have a setting for confirmation just like
- >with the shredder.
- >Just an idea. Sorry it's off the beaten path a little.
-
- Terrific idea. Another possibility: have an icon of a shark (Jaws)
- gobbling things on the screen.
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