Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!gaynor From: gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: ** How about writing a nice utility pgm? ** Message-ID: <1990Nov27.133930.28953@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Date: 27 Nov 90 13:39:30 GMT References: <1990Nov26.191448.3319@herald.usask.ca> Sender: news@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: left.magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu In article <1990Nov26.191448.3319@herald.usask.ca> austin@skorpio.USask.CA (Alvin Austin) writes: >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 already exists as a commercial product - HandOff II. Unfortunately, it's fallen prey to the the "kitchen sink" syndrome and now does a number of other things besides just re-map creator types. I know that there also exist other commercial products which can do what you request, and I even think that some of the shareware program-launch utilities can do this. But, I'm not certain. HandOff II is the only product that I am -certain- does what you request. Who makes it? Not sure... 5th Generation? -- Jim Gaynor - Systems Analyst 1 + "This is Serious. He is Lost. The Ohio State University ACS-FM-OCES | We must begin the Search at once." gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.ed | -Rabbit, from gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu + "The House at Pooh Corner"