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- From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Silly NeXT question from user who should know the answer
- Message-ID: <63789@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 00:30:41 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.232845.12294@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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- In article <1993Jan26.232845.12294@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu writes:
- > How can a user "inform" the FileViewer that files with certain
- > extensions should have a corresponding app selected as the default
- > launch app? It's easy enough to select an app already displayed in the
- > Tools panel of the inspector, but how does one add a new choice? Dragging
- > an icon into that area doesn't seem to work (it should!)...
-
- I havent tried this - but it may work.
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- You could edit the iconheader file of the relevant app,
- using otool or SegHoarker if necessary to extract/replace it.
- (is that still necessary in 3.0?)
- you could write one of those new fangled 3.0 filter services to
- do any necessary conversion.
-
- FileViewer seems to treat executable files differently - letting you use
- Edit or Terminal as the default tool. I'ld prefer Stuart, but since the choice
- is not driven by the file extension - the above trick wont work.
-
- This is where using file extensions as types starts to break down.
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- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted
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