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From: hui@joplin.mpr.ca (Michael Hui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Text file madness on the Mac.
Message-ID: <1998@eric.mpr.ca>
Date: 5 Jan 90 19:07:35 GMT
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In article <5900@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@bierstadt.UCAR.EDU (Herb Poppe) writes:
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>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.

Really? What program's creator code should I insert? Wouldn't the
program then assume the file is in its internal format and generate
interesting results?

Michael Hui  604-985-6506 604-985-4214  hui@joplin.mpr.ca