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From: wiseman@Tellabs.COM (Jeff Wiseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: How do I twiddle the desktop?
Message-ID: <2681@tellab5.tellabs.com>
Date: 25 May 90 17:53:16 GMT
References: <1990May24.201856.8174@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle IL
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In article <1990May24.201856.8174@portia.Stanford.EDU> ralphm@portia.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Melton) writes:
>I want to tamper with the 'MACA' resource of my desktop file so that when I
>double-click on a MacWrite document (type 'WORD', creator 'MACA'), MS Word is
>launched (I don't have MacWrite.) I tried to do this by copying the contents
>of the 'MSWD' resource of the Desktop into the 'MACA' resource--it didn't work.
>
>Can anyone suggest what I can do?

If you are not using multifinder, you can use a thing called imposter. This is
a very small application that you assign the creator type (eg. MACA) that you
want and then pass it on to the application that you want.

If you then double click on a MACA document, the imposter starts and hands the
document name to Word (if you have so designated). I did this for several
different applications since I have MacWriteII and it has a whole mess of
translators that come with it.

But imposter doesn't work on multifinder for some reason. You might find a copy
on Compuserve.

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Jeff Wiseman:	....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM