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From: pbuck@finagle.tcs.com (Peter Buckner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: More Word Confusion
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Date: 18 Aug 90 02:19:22 GMT
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>> {Cheryl is agravated by the fact that sometimes double clicking on an MSWORD
>> document starts her Word 3.02, and sometimes it start Word 4.0...
>> }

As far as I can tell, the hidden desktop file contains that kind of magic:
list of which application to actually run when a document is double-clicked.
You'll note that Word documents have a creator of "MSWD".  Both Word 3.02 and
4.0 say that they are the "correct" application to use to open an MSWD doc.
So, If you have both on your disk, both will be registered in the Desktop file,
and the finder will use the first one it finds in the file.

By Moving one application in & out of folders, you are alerting the desktop
to its existence.  The result of this is that the finder will now know that
some other program is responsible for opening MSWD docs.  Other activities
will also alert the finder (Get Info, for one).  The result is that if you
want to double-click to open docs, you really should have only Word 3 or
Word 4,
not both...
=                  Peter Buckner   pbuck@tcs.com                            =
=Teknekron Communications Systems, Berkeley CA. (normal disclaimers apply..)=