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From: claebaur@shell.portal.com (Tony S Annese)
Subject: Re: Need iconized printer utility.
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Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 00:30:04 GMT
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In article <C6EzHn.JLq@tsoft.net> tedm@tsoft.net (Ted Matsumura) writes:
>In article <C6EvAL.520@unix.portal.com> claebaur@shell.portal.com (Tony S Annese) writes:
>>You have one. Minimize the print manager and drag a file to it and it will
>>print it. You need to associate file extensions with such things as the
>>notepad for it to do this though.
>
>This may work, but won't it involve invoking the applications, e.g. if you
>drag a .bmp or .txt file to the min. Print Manager icon, won't it RUN
>Notepad and Paintbrush before printing?  If you just want to drag a file
>(.txt or .bmp) to a print server icon, with stay at front attributes, you
>need an intelligent Print Manager drag and drop client like Amish Print 2.0.

Yes it invokes the associated application. That takes but 10 seconds?
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