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- From: andy@laguna.santafe.edu (Andy Mell)
- Subject: Re: Auto Translation protocol (TransLink)
- Message-ID: <rv=s22@SantaFe.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 02:26:52 GMT
- Organization: Santa Fe Institute
- References: <1993Jan18.232637.14383@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
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- In article <1993Jan18.232637.14383@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:
- >
- >OK. So we have Alias$@ImportType_695 for GIF, which says "Run Translator".
- >This is all fine, but what if Translator can't translate a GIF into the
- >form that we need? For example, if you drag a GIF file to a text editor,
- >should Translator be run? Because after running, it will still be unable to
- >supply a translated form of the GIF that the text editor can read.
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- Have a look at the 'Datatypes' system implemented in the commodore amiga WB3
- OS. It is rather nice, and i would like to see something similar implemented
- on the Arc.
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- A
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- Andy Mell, Applied Physics Department, | andy@santafe.edu
- University of Hull, Hull, HU7 6RX | amell@nyx.cs.du.edu
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