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- From: shenoy@iastate.edu (Shiva Shenoy)
- Subject: Re: Drag & Drop Icons
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:25:55 GMT
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- In <1993Jan6.154108.28484@ornl.gov> jfmcbray@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (Jason F McBrayer) writes:
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- > I'm a heavy Windows user, and despite the huge volume of Windows
- >shareware I use, there's still a function I need and haven't seen. What
- >I'm looking for is a utility that will allow user configurable desktop
- >icons for drag and drop. All it needs to do is be able to pass a
- >commandline to the appropriate program. Since some of the things I want
- >to be able to do this with are DOS tasks, (notably, archiving programs) I
- >can't just run the application minimized and drag&drop to that.
- > There are many application docks that can do it (AppBar 3.3 is the
- >best, and it's freeware), but I need separate icons to preserve desktop
- >space, ie, by not having icons for the programs I'm not going to be
- >dragging and dropping to. I've seen payware apps that will do this, but
- >the cheapest is NDW, and I'm not shelling out for that. Anyone seen anything?
-
- Check out the tiny freeware program called dropper. The latest version is at
- ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the pub/pc/win3/uploads directory called
- drop_101.zip
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