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From: rubin@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mike Rubin)
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Subject: Re: More on "improving" Finder
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Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 20:14:50 EDT
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> Ideally what I would want to happen is this:  I double-click on document foo,
[which may be a MacWrite document, but you don't have MacWrite]
> and automagically MS-Word (substitute your favorite word processor here)
> gets invoked, and opens (converting if necessary) the document.

Hmm... if you had two copies of MS-Word and the "creator" of one of
them was altered to be MACA (i.e. MacWrite), the Finder would launch
that when you doubleclicked on a MacWrite document.  The only thing
Apple has to do is put in symbolic links so that you don't have two
physical copies of MS-Word sitting on your disk...

Why has nobody mentioned in this discussion the various DA's for
viewing text and MacPaint files?  Or am I missing something?