mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) (03/15/88)
I have many macwrite documents and now that I am on a MACII macwrite no
longer works( I dont care now that I have WORD). The question is how
can I tell the finder that when I double click on a WRITE document that
I really want to open up WORD. This type of capability has other applications
as well.
Mark Interrante CIS Department
University of Florida
Internet: mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu Gainesville, FL 32611
(904) 335-8051sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) (03/16/88)
in article <12964@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) says: > > I have many macwrite documents and now that I am on a MACII macwrite no > longer works( I dont care now that I have WORD). The question is how > can I tell the finder that when I double click on a WRITE document that > I really want to open up WORD. This type of capability has other applications > as well. > You can't directly double-click on a document and expect it to automatically launch an application other than the one that created it. That's because the document carries around a four character string that identifies its creator. There are two ways to fix the problem: 1. Use a "tools" program to change the creator string on the document so that it is the same as the creator for Word documents 2. Open Word with a blank document, close the blank document, and open the MacWrite file from the standard open file dialog box. Once you save the file from Word, the document will be marked with Word as its creator. Jan Harrington, sysop Scholastech Telecommunications UUCP: ihnp4!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop BITNET: JHARRY@BENTLEY ******************************************************************************** Miscellaneous profundity: "No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Banzai ********************************************************************************
kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (03/17/88)
I know that Darin Adler wrote a program RANGER with which you could change the type of selected (all?) files of a certain type to another - and, I believe, I had uploaded it at some time and that should make it availabe at the SUMEX, SIMTEL20 and many other archives. Darin wrote that program to change the type of MacPaint-docs to SuperPaint (or was it FullPaint?) - and that it worked for other types also. I also remember a second, slightly different program that was even more powerful (or was it the other way around?) - but can't remember the name ... -- (prefered mailbox:) werner%rascal@sally.utexas.edu ....!ut-sally!rascal.ics.utexas.edu!werner (if rascal is unreachable:) werner@astro@sally.utexas.edu werner@utastro.uucp
cyosta@taux01.UUCP (Yossie Silverman) (03/28/88)
My solution to the problem of a document opening an application other then the one that created it was to make a tiny application called 'launch ...' (where ... is the name of the application to launch) which has the creator of the application which created the document (and, the ICN#'s as well, to make things look good as well as behave). This application simply launches the application I wish to use passing it the finder argument list that was passed to it by the finder. It looks for the application in the same folder as it is. I didn't actually write this program :-) I found such a program that launched FullPaint for MacPaint docs and disassembled it. I made it do a few things (1) launch SuperPaint for MacPaint, (2) Launch Word 3.01 for MacWrite, (3) for a friend, launch Canvas for MacPaint. Any programmer could hack something like this in no time at all or I could upload one with instructions for customizing. Yossie -- Yossie Silverman What did the Caspian sea? National Semiconductor Ltd. (Israel) - Saki UUCP: taux01!yossie@nsc.UUCP NSA LSD FBI KGB PCP CIA MOSAD NUCLEAR MI5 SPY ASSASSINATE SDI -- OOCLAY ITAY