Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.programmer:21273 comp.sys.mac.system:3012 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ames!haven!udel!princeton!dry!bskendig From: bskendig@dry.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Gripes about System 7.0 Message-ID: <5863@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 1 Feb 91 16:55:22 GMT References: <1991Jan26.221219.4169@cbnewsk.att.com> <11886@goofy.Apple.COM> Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer Organization: Starfleet Academy: Princeton University Lines: 27 In article aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) writes: >In article <11886@goofy.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein) writes: >[in reference to Sys7's ability to offer TeachText for a PICT or TEXT >file and the customability of this 'forwarding'] > I don't think it make sense to put this resource in the System file; > should any app be able to add to the System file? It belongs in the > Finder, and ideally there would be a mechanism to change the resource > from within the Finder. > >Actually, I think this should be a separate file, similar to the >desktop file, in which you could have all sorts of cross-linking >pointers (type/creators)--Since the file (resource file) is not 'part' >of the finder or the System, you would not have to limit the number of >cross references which were used... Sounds like a job for the Finder Preferences file! Just keep a list of which applications should deal with what file types when the creator of a file can't be found, and let this be configurable through the control panel... << Brian >> | Brian S. Kendig \ Macintosh | Engineering, | bskendig | | Computer Engineering |\ Thought | USS Enterprise | @phoenix.Princeton.EDU | Princeton University |_\ Police | -= NCC-1701-D =- | @PUCC.BITNET | "It's not that I don't have the work to *do* -- I don't do the work I *have*."