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From: austin@skorpio.USask.CA (Alvin Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: ** How about writing a nice utility pgm? **
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.191448.3319@herald.usask.ca>
Date: 26 Nov 90 19:14:48 GMT
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Here's an idea for a nice little utility program for the Mac
which I haven't seen done yet.  

I'd like a *small* utility program in pascal or c.  It would
have the creator type set to the same as say WriteNow or MacWrite,
so that if I double-clicked on a document created by the said
word processor, this utility pgm would be launched. 

The pgm would do nothing except to launch the word processing 
application I *do* use, say Microsoft Word, passing the information
about the file I double clicked on to MS Word.

This way, you might have a couple of copies of this utility somewhere
on your hard disk, one with the creator type set to WriteNow,
another copy's creator type set to MacWrite, etc.  Double-clicking
on text files in either form would start MS-Word with that file
open.

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Alternatively, an INIT which maps the creator types of documents
that you double-click on to what you want.  ie: double click on 
document with creator type MACA (MacWrite) and Microsoft Word is
launched (creator type MSWD).

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Anybody with some code to accomplish such a thing?

Please email, and I will summarize the responses received, if
there is some interest in this type of thing.


Thanks,

Alvin
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Alvin Austin                                Email: austin@skorpio.USask.Ca
Department of Computational Science
(Mail) Room 1C101 Engineering Building     Office: Room 145.1 Arts Building
University of Saskatchewan              Telephone: (306) 966-4895
Saskatoon, Sask. CANADA  S7N 0W0              FAX: (306) 966-8709
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