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From: rht@smsdpg.uu.net (Randy Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Text file madness on the Mac.
Message-ID: <423@smsdpg.uu.net>
Date: 6 Jan 90 21:00:08 GMT
References: <1998@eric.mpr.ca>
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Organization: SMS Data Products Group, Reston VA
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From article <1998@eric.mpr.ca>, by hui@joplin.mpr.ca (Michael Hui):
> In article <5900@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@bierstadt.UCAR.EDU (Herb Poppe) writes:
>>
>>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?

No, most word processors have the ability to read and write ascii
text files. If you insert a creator of MSWD (Microsoft Word) for 
example, it will see that the file is ascii since the type is still 
TEXT. You can also use "ttxt" if you want to use TeachText, SSIW for
WordPerfect, etc..
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