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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Fullwrite Poof, Word4 kerning
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.221457.17695@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 13 Sep 90 22:14:57 GMT
References: <1990Sep13.104417@miguel.llnl.gov>
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In article <1990Sep13.104417@miguel.llnl.gov>, macq@miguel.llnl.gov (Don
MacQueen) writes:
> Well, maybe all you folks who are going on at great length about
> Fullwrite can answer this:
> I created a new document with FWiP (1.0), saved it, quit, and shutdown. 
> Next day, I double click on the document and Finder says can't find the
> app.  Get info on the document calls it a FWP Thesaurus Document. 
> Couldn't find anything in a fairly quick trip through the manuals.
This is the (presumably) well-known "they went and set the bundle bit
on the wrong files" problem with Fullwrite. It's happened with every
copy of 1.0 I've seen. FWP Thesaurus, and maybe 1 or 2 other documents (I
can't remember ...) come supplied with the bundle bit turned on, which is
meant to be done only to the application. This is used by the Finder in
the process of associating applications with documents.

To fix it, you need to look at the documents supplied with FWP (excluding
the application itself) in ResEdit. For each, choose Get Info, and make
sure the Bundle Bit checkbox is turned off. Save the changes, and reboot,
holding down COMMAND and OPTION to force the desktop file to be rebuilt.
This how I fix the problem (I don't know of a simpler way).

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu