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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Icons, pipes, etc.
Message-ID: <367@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 07:31:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.367
Posted: Mon Jul  6 07:31:41 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 01:42:09 EDT
References: <8705190042.AA14664@cogsci.berkeley.edu> <9954@decwrl.DEC.COM> <610@gec-mi-at.co.uk>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: Build the whole thing, and then say GO!

In article <610@gec-mi-at.co.uk>, adam@gec-mi-at.co.uk (Adam Quantrill) writes:
> Click a then b with the right button, pick them both up with the right button
> and drop them in place. The left button is used to pick up just one file,
> and clears any outstanding right button selections.

Some machines have well-defined semantics for what the right button means. For
example, the Amiga knows it as the menu button. For that matter, the Amiga
has a well defined way of doing what you want:

Click a.
Hold down the shift key and click b.
keep holding down the shift key and drag a and b into the icon you want to
deliver them to.

For building pipelines, a better way would be:

Drag ls into the work window.
Drag pr into the work window.
Drag the files into the work window.

Click a, ls; b, ls; ls, pr; pr, whatever.

This connects a to ls, b to ls, ls to pr, and pr to whatever.

Then you hit the doit icon or select doit from the menu. (Oh why does everyone
have to use pull down menus when popups are so much more convenient?)
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-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!)