bskendig@dry.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) (02/02/91)
In article <ALAND.91Jan31172038@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) writes: >In article <11886@goofy.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein) writes: >[in reference to Sys7's ability to offer TeachText for a PICT or TEXT >file and the customability of this 'forwarding'] > I don't think it make sense to put this resource in the System file; > should any app be able to add to the System file? It belongs in the > Finder, and ideally there would be a mechanism to change the resource > from within the Finder. > >Actually, I think this should be a separate file, similar to the >desktop file, in which you could have all sorts of cross-linking >pointers (type/creators)--Since the file (resource file) is not 'part' >of the finder or the System, you would not have to limit the number of >cross references which were used... Sounds like a job for the Finder Preferences file! Just keep a list of which applications should deal with what file types when the creator of a file can't be found, and let this be configurable through the control panel... << Brian >> | Brian S. Kendig \ Macintosh | Engineering, | bskendig | | Computer Engineering |\ Thought | USS Enterprise | @phoenix.Princeton.EDU | Princeton University |_\ Police | -= NCC-1701-D =- | @PUCC.BITNET | "It's not that I don't have the work to *do* -- I don't do the work I *have*."