Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!ox.com!sendai!rich From: rich@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Opening "foreign" documents in Standard Open Message-ID: Date: 11 Jul 90 14:35:21 GMT References: <8980@goofy.Apple.COM> <1990Jul4.042132.11832@d.cs.okstate.edu> <8996@goofy.Apple.COM> <1990Jul10.154056.28511@gorgo.ifi.unizh.ch> Sender: rich@sendai.UUCP Reply-To: rich@sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us Organization: Digital Works, Ltd. - Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 18 In-reply-to: schaerer@gorgo.ifi.unizh.ch's message of 10 Jul 90 15:40:56 GMT I have a couple of complaints along these lines too. 1) documents are opened using the application signature. But what do I do with documents for which I do not have the creating application, but do have something usable. Witness the problem of README files which frequently show up as text files with macwrite signatures. I don't have macwrite and don't want it. I do have teachtext. This is extremely awkward to explain to naive users. 2) As a user, there is no (apple provided) way to even find out the signature of a file, much less change it. 3) I often spend far more time navigating around the SF dialog than I do working on the document. In a multi-finder environment, I'd rather have the call to SF pawn off to multi. I'd then have the desktop to navigate around rather than SF (one less unnecessary interface) and I typically have the folders I'm dealing with open somewhere on my desktop anyway.