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From: dbert@churchy.ai.mit.edu (Douglas Siebert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: "Startup" documents
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Date: 27 Feb 91 11:11:34 GMT
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I have a question for all you programmers which I *think* may relate to
ResEdit, but I'm not certain.  What I want to know is, how can one determine
the actions taken by a "startup" document (I'll call it this for want of a
better/standard term to call it -- what I'm referring to is a document
which, when double-clicked upon, opens a related application.  An example
of what I mean would be when you double-click on a MacWrite document you
open the MacWrite application)

What I'm trying to determine is if there is any way to use ResEdit (or some
other application) and look at the startup document and locate the sections
where the related application is opened.  Also I'd like to know how to make
this action occur myself, but I'd bet information like that would be
available in Inside Macintosh (which I, as a new Mac owner, haven't yet
gotten around to purchasing :) ) or some other reference.  Mainly though
I'd just be really happy if someone could tell me how to locate the
aforementioned sections of a startup document (not specific to any one
application, but in a general sense)  Since this is probably not of general
interest it would probably be better if you e-mailed me.  Thank you to
anyone who can take the time to help me out in this matter.

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Doug Siebert                                     dbert@albert.ai.mit.edu
MBA Student (2nd year)
The University of Iowa