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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
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Subject: Re: Text file madness on the Mac.
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Date: 5 Jan 90 20:10:13 GMT
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In article <1998@eric.mpr.ca> hui@joplin.mpr.ca writes:
|In article <5900@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@bierstadt.UCAR.EDU (Herb Poppe) writes:
|>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?

No, because while the creator field says what application should run
it, the  *type* field remains TEXT, which tells the application what
the format is.  ALL w/p type applications (and several others)
recognize type TEXT and know what to do with it.
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