jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) (06/04/90)
One of the most annoying things about the Mac is how it handles the opening of documents. If I 2-click on a document, this launches the appropriate application and all is fine with the world. Now I go back to the finder and 2-click on another document expecting this document to be opened also, but instead I get an alert box that says "Some documents could not be opened or printed." I think Lightspeed C does this although Write 4.0 does not. Is this something that I have to modify in the system/finder or in the apps themselves? Is there a generalized solution that will let me open arbitrary numbers of documents regardless of the application? This really defeats the entire notion of being able to just click on documents to opn them and I'm REALLY surprised Apple or the application developrs haven't done something about it. It's truly counter-intuitive.