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- From: mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: More Amiga OS weaknesses and strengths
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.220321.23438@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- References: <bruce.0ds3@zuhause.MN.ORG> <paulk.35q9@terapin.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:03:21 GMT
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- In <paulk.35q9@terapin.com> paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:
- >This is rather lame compared to the Finder.
-
- Since when can the finder use any other program than the creator
- program ?
-
- >If I double click it but the executable aint been linked yet, the WB
- >will find an app of the same name in my command path, and run that.
- >Mind you, this is a TOOL icon I'm talking about here, not a project
- >icon. This "feature" once caused me to send a disk to a paying
- >customer that contained no executable copy of the program. I thought
- >it was on the disk because when I double clicked it, another copy of
- >the program started up.
-
- Fascinating :) I consider this a bug in Workbench.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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