NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/apps/9519

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From: [e-mail] (David M Kreindler)
Subject: Re: Drag and Drop Compression
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: University of Cincinnati
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:56:03 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>What I had in mind was something like what I have used on an Archemides. An
>icon on the desk top which you can drag file(s) on to and it will decompress
>them for you or if they are not compressed it will compress them for you
>perhaps with a prompt for the compression method, or else it would just select
>the most approiate for the file type.

Specificially with regard to the 'file' vs 'files' drag-and-drop issue,
I called IBM Tech Support the other day, and asked 'em to tell me how an
app could be set up to accept multiple files via the drag-n'-drop method
from the desktop.  I was told that it's a 'program design issue': i.e.,
if you want to be able to drag multiple files to a single application,
and have the application run (as a single invocation of the program) on
the bunch of files passed, you have to *write* the program that way --
there's no way to set up the WPS to pass multiple arguments to a single
program by the drag'n'drop method if it wasn't designed as such from
scratch.  FYI.

Cheers,
    DK
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