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From: rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Aliases again
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Date: 1 Jun 91 01:40:04 GMT
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In article <1991May31.194622.4942@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> 
ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) writes:
> Here is a little problem I've encountered: some ASCII files can be
> successfully opened by "dropping" them onto the Word application icon, 
but
> *nothing happens* when I drop them onto a Word alias. Shouldn't aliases
> behave (in this regard) exactly like the application they point to?

They do, a feature I find terribly convenient. I suspect your trouble is 
that those files, although ASCII, were not marked as being of type 'TEXT'.

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