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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
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In article <5216@skinner.nprdc.arpa> malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) writes:
>More to the point, why must I always use the application I created the
>document with when I want to do something to the document? For
>example, on my PC using Logitech's Point editor and LaserGo's GoScript
>PostScript interpreter, I can create a PostScript file that I will be
>And with CED, the repeat consists of <uparrow><uparrow><return> (to
>get back into Point) and <dnarrow> (to run GoScript).
>If I double-click on the document with the Mac interface, I'll always
>wind up in the text editor. There must be some way to drag a file into
>an application other than the one the file was created in, but it's
>certainly not going to be as convenient as it is on the PC. The
>double-click 'launch the application with this file' is only a
>timesaver when you're never going to use the file with any other
>application.
>
Sean, you do have alternatives to double-clicking to open a certain application
with the Mac. If you select the file and the application and then use the
open menu item in the finder, that application will open the file as long
as the selected application can read that file type. Also there is a new
INIT called Handoff that allows you to select the application that will 
open at particular document type. And of course you can always open the
specific application and use its open menu. Another thing that I can
do on a mac with software that supports multiple documents is to select
multiple documents in the finder and open them all at the same time, and
I can also select multiple documents in the finder and select print and
print any number of documents..I don't know of any PC application that does
the that...course you never know..




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