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From: hpoppe@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Text file madness on the Mac.
Keywords: Something else you can't do on the Mac
Message-ID: <5900@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 90 15:42:05 GMT
References: <2706@aecom.yu.edu>
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Reply-To: hpoppe@bierstadt.UCAR.EDU (Herb Poppe)
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In article <2706@aecom.yu.edu> werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) writes:
>
>	This started when I mentioned the simple fact given a text file
>(say from a download) you can't display its contents at the level of the
>Desktop.
>	You can't.

Speak for yourself.

A feature of the Versaterm terminal emulation program allows one to set
the creator string for the TEXT files it produces. All such files can
then be displayed by simply double clicking on them from the desktop.

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