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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 11:09:19 EST
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- From: "Phil M. Jones" <pjones@rvgs.vak12ed.edu>
- Subject: Opening Documents on the Mac
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- In this article we will explore how to create and work
- on documents on a Mac.
-
- Up until--possibly--the most recent incarnation of DOS,
- in order to open a previously designed document, you had to
- open the application that created it first. In the Mac world
- you have always had the ability to open a previously created
- document by simply "double-clicking" when the mouse pointer is
- pointing within the document icon, or clicking once and the
- going to "Menu Bar" selection "file" and then choosing open.
- Due to the design of the MAC operating system, doing this
- automatically opens the correct Application before the document
- opens.
-
- The MAC document has two portions to it the "Data fork"
- and the "Resource fork". It is the "Resource Fork" that
- contain information about the document as to the "Authoring
- Application" among other things. DOS only has a DATA fork.
-
- In a response to my response in the "DOS BACKUP"
- article a writer wrote that he didn't necessarily want the
- document to be opened by the originating application, and would
- find this distracting. I must explain that you can open many
- documents by applications other than the "Originating
- Application" most Applications on the Mac have some form of
- translators built in so that a document can be opened by a
- different Application. You must open the application you
- desire to use first, then the document will be converted to the
- new application's format. You then have the option of saving
- under the same name or a different name. Note if you use the
- same name the new document "replaces" the original document.
-
- There are few Applications such as "PageMaker" that
- instead of converting the document simply reads the information
- in the file; when you use the "Place" command. What this
- allows you to do, is open the original document make correction
- in text such as Spelling and Thesaurus choices or add new lines
- of text. Then when the "PageMaker" document is re-opened those
- changes are incorparated in the the Pagemaker document--in
- other words the Pagemaker Document is automatically updated.
- Although I work with DOS machines at work, I am not sure if the
- DOS version of PageMaker has this ability. If it does then are
- more similarities between the "Systems" than people would have
- you to believe.
-
- Phil M. Jones, CET
- pjones@rvgs.vak12ed.edu
-