Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!indetech!cirrus!dhesi From: dhesi@cirrus.com (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: file attributes Message-ID: <1991Jun26.011529.23375@cirrus.com> Date: 26 Jun 91 01:15:29 GMT References: <1743@sranha.sra.co.jp> Sender: news@cirrus.com Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc. Lines: 27 On the Mac, as I understand it, double-clicking on the filename gives you a certain application program that uses that file... ...Triple-clicking the file gives you another application that uses the same file... ...Quadruple-clicking the file give you yet another application... ...No, wait. My imagination is runing wild here. In fact the Macintosh recognizes exactly one application for each file. When I double-click on a C file, I don't always want to just compile it. Sometimes I want to run lint on it instead. Other times I want to expand tabs in it. Other times I want to enter my favorite editor to edit that file. Other times I want to enter my favorite editor in read-only mode to view that file. Other times I want to enter my *second*-most favorite editor to edit that file, because I just happen to need a feature at that instant that that second-most favorite editor provides. Frankly, I *don't* think UNIX users should revert back to the Dark Ages, when there was One Standard Thing they could do quickly with any file, and everything else took multiple menus and multiple mouse clicks. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi