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From: svpillay@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kanthan Pillay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Opening files with "foreign" applications
Message-ID: <2527@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 15 Apr 88 04:18:31 GMT
References: <2577@utastro.UUCP>
Reply-To: svpillay@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kanthan Pillay)
Organization: The Institution for the Temporarily Intelligent
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In article <2577@utastro.UUCP> bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) writes:
>It used to be that I could
>select the entire group of files and PackIt, Double-click (or use
>"Open" from the File menu) and this would fire up PackIt, which would
>then dutifully pack all the files in one convenient labor-saving
>operation. Now I get a dialog box advising me to "Please open/print only
>documents of the same kind." How annoying! My only choice, it would
>seem, is to go into PackIt and manually open each file in turn, which
>defeats the whole purpose of the operation.
>Bill Jefferys


I sent a mail message about this to Phil Goldman (who reads this
newsgroup) about three months ago. I didn't get a reply, so I assume
that either:
* He didn't get the message or
* There is no fix for this.
	I hope it's the first. How about it, Apple?


							Kanthan.







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