Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop
From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How to coerce the finder to open different application
Message-ID: <479@stech.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 88 21:28:39 GMT
References: <12964@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
Lines: 32

in article <12964@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) says:
> 
> I have many macwrite documents and now that I am on a MACII macwrite no
> longer works( I dont care now that I have WORD).  The question is how 
> can I tell the finder that when I double click on a WRITE document that 
> I really want to open up WORD.  This type of capability has other applications
> as well.
> 
You can't directly double-click on a document and expect it to automatically
launch an application other than the one that created it.  That's because
the document carries around a four character string that identifies its
creator.  There are two ways to fix the problem:

	1. Use a "tools" program to change the creator string on the 
document so that it is the same as the creator for Word documents
	2. Open Word with a blank document, close the blank document, and
open the MacWrite file from the standard open file dialog box.  Once you
save the file from Word, the document will be marked with Word as its
creator.


Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
UUCP: ihnp4!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop
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