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- From: nas20@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith)
- Subject: Re: DragASprite / Modified filer.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.141222.24292@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Reply-To: nas20@phx.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith)
- Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
- References: <1992Nov6.214741.5081@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <1992Nov7.004421.4770@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1992Nov10.175107.2501@abekrd.co.uk> <BxJuvw.96I@cen.ex.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:12:22 GMT
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- In article <BxJuvw.96I@cen.ex.ac.uk> CDLatham@cen.ex.ac.uk (C.D.Latham) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov10.175107.2501@abekrd.co.uk> garyb@abekrd.co.uk (Gary Bartlett) writes:
- >
- >Hate to tell you chaps with this wonderful new idea, but I pointed out that
- >the Sun Openwindows file manager does this and maybe it could be done for
- >the RISC OS 3 filer many months ago on comp.sys.acorn. (8-) Nobody took
- >any notice at the time so why is everybody so excited about it now?
- >--Christopher.
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- 2 reasons I would say - lots of programmers are now getting their mits on
- a non-broken OS (3.10), and RISC User publishing ForceADrag sparked a bit
- of interest in the DragASprite module (not to mention the endless posts of
- 'how do you turn on sprite dragging -> you do this *FX -> no you do this
- SYS call -> ... ' 8-(
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- Nick Smith, Rm.226, Churchill College, Cambridge ! Email: nas20@uk.ac.cam.phx
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