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- From: feck@informatik.uni-kl.de (Christoph Feck IRZ)
- Subject: Re: Here's a GREAT IDEA for a new WORKBENC
- Message-ID: <1993Oct25.135628@informatik.uni-kl.de>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 12:56:28 GMT
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- In article <2aaba5INN69q@dubhe.anu.edu.au>, tayschon@mehta.anu.edu.au (Sam Taylor) writes:
- >
- > Why don't Commodore define a set of standard icons for each of the
- > datatypes, and set the default tool for those objects as being
- > "Multiview" for instance? That way, you wouldn't need a million and
- > one useless .info files - you could simple double-click on any file
- > and have multiview open it up for you. Just a thought...
-
- If you save an object with MultiView, it tries to access the .info
- file in ENV:sys/def_<type>.info, e.g. if you save a ILBM, it uses
- ENV:sys/def_ilbm.info as the icon. Place MultiView as a default
- tool there, and off you go! However, every other program should
- use this too!
-
- 3k// Christoph Feck, TowerSystems
- \X/ Amiga - Intuition inside.
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