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From: cyosta@taux01.UUCP (Yossie Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How to coerce the finder to open different application
Message-ID: <528@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 14:30:24 GMT
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Reply-To: taux01!cyosta@nsc.UUCP (Yossie Silverman)
Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd.
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My solution to the problem of a document opening an application other then
the one that created it was to make a tiny application called 'launch ...'
(where ... is the name of the application to launch) which has the creator
of the application which created the document (and, the ICN#'s as well, to
make things look good as well as behave).  This application simply launches
the application I wish to use passing it the finder argument list that was
passed to it by the finder.  It looks for the application in the same folder
as it is.  I didn't actually write this program :-)  I found such a program
that launched FullPaint for MacPaint docs and disassembled it.  I made it
do a few things (1) launch SuperPaint for MacPaint, (2) Launch Word 3.01 for
MacWrite, (3) for a friend, launch Canvas for MacPaint.  Any programmer could
hack something like this in no time at all or I could upload one with
instructions for customizing.

Yossie
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Yossie Silverman                                   What did the Caspian sea?
National Semiconductor Ltd. (Israel)				- Saki
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