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From: David_Greg_Herlihy@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: openField handlers
Message-ID: <41861@cup.portal.com>
Date: 1 May 91 04:41:59 GMT
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Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Opening file with Multifinder

When you use the command "open file x with [application]" while running
the single finder, Hypercard obediently finds the file and opens it
with the specified application (if such file exists).  What I find
annoying, however, is that this command does not seem to work if you
are running multifinder and the specified application is already opened.
Rather than opening the file, Hypercard merely switches you to whatever
file is currently opened in the application rather than the file you requested

Does anyone know how to make this command behave with multifinder?  Is
this something we can expect to go away with system 7.0 or a HyperCard upgrade
Thanks for your help.  David