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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Text file madness: diagnosis & prescription.
Message-ID: <1990Jan13.001703.24286@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 13 Jan 90 00:17:03 GMT
References: <2706@aecom.yu.edu> <5900@ncar.ucar.edu> <1998@eric.mpr.ca> <1990Jan7.172731.12580@NCoast.ORG> <8454@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
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As quoted from <8454@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> by mls@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (mike.siemon):
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| In article <1990Jan7.172731.12580@NCoast.ORG>, allbery@NCoast.ORG
| (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
| > +---------------
| > | In article <8315@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> mls@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (mike.siemon) writes:
| > | >much larger general problem.  If I have a file I may want to use it in
| > | >a number of different ways, totally unconstrained by the file's origin
| > +---------------
| >
| > No -- you can override it very easily:  select the application and the file
| > you want opened, then select "Open" from the File menu.
| 
| This is a bit obscure.  If I try to select, e.g., the file generated by my
| scanner software *and* a word processor, I find that the Finder doesn't *let*
| me extend selections across different folders.  (surely you *don't* mean for
| me to keep everything in the *same* folder? :-))
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Admitted, it's a pain---but it *does* exist.  No doubt a clever INIT could
exploit this.

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| not need the File menu's Open line -- at least in this case.  I was unaware
| of the possibility until you mentioned it; are you suggesting this is known
| to ordinary Mac users?  It is not mentioned in Apple documentation that I
| have read.  Or are you suggesting that ordinary Mac users will divine this
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The Macintosh SE manual, page 169, third paragraph of the section labeled
"Open".  Of course, I may be the only person in the world who actually *reads*
manuals upon receiving them....

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| Do you begin to see what I'm talking about?  Either everything has to *know*
| about everything else -- impossible unless you forbid innovation, as in the
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I believe I mentioned this (comment about MacWrite's response to opening the
Suitcase II INIT).  But---as I said then---it's no different than you get from
e.g. UNIX or MS-DOS, etc.

++Brandon
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