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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: How do I twiddle the desktop?
Message-ID: <2571@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 25 May 90 18:31:55 GMT
References: <1990May24.201856.8174@portia.Stanford.EDU>
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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?
>Ralph Melton
>ralphm@portia.stanford.edu
>
	What yo want to look for at your local Mac software 
	dealer or Mail order location is HandOff. This is an
	INIT that will do specifically what you ask. It will
	re-direct files from other applications to the 
	applications that you really want to launch them,
	assuming of course that the other application knows
	how to deal with those files, ie convert them or open
	them. Its supposed to eliminate the Application not
	found dialog in the Finder...
-- 
Norm Goodger				SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862
3Com Corp.				Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
Enterprise Systems Division             (I disclaim anything and everything)
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