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- From: greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield)
- Subject: Re: Which app gets launched?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.184259.7641@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
- References: <1993Jan4.154503.11241@macc.wisc.edu> <1i9uidINN35l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1ia7s5INNgvi@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 18:42:59 EST
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- In article <1ia7s5INNgvi@agate.berkeley.edu> dana@are.Berkeley.EDU (Dana E. Keil) writes:
-
- >>A "third party marketing opportunity" would be a Finder Hack that lets a user
- >>manually pick out which application they really want launched, and have it
- >>remembered. If it can't be found, then the Finder would continue its search
- >>path.
- >
- >What I do to accomplish this (using System 7 is necessary though)
- >is to make an alias to the desired copy of the application and put
- >it in a convenient place (for me that's the desktop) and then
- >open documents by drag and drop on the application alias rather
- >than double-clicking the document.
-
- Better yet, use the nice little freeware utility "Save a BNDL." It's *not*
- a Finder *hack*, but it does exactly the necessary job. Say you have two
- different versions of an app on your disk--you just drop the one you want
- launched when double-clicking the documents onto "Save a BNDL." The utility
- changes the Desktop Database entry for the app to achieve this.
-
- Nice and convenient.
-
-
- --
- J. S. Greenfield greeny@top.cis.syr.edu
- (I like to put 'greeny' here,
- but my d*mn system wants a
- *real* name!) "What's the difference between an orange?"
-