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In article <1ia7s5INNgvi@agate.berkeley.edu> dana@are.Berkeley.EDU (Dana E. Keil) writes:

>>A "third party marketing opportunity" would be a Finder Hack that lets a user
>>manually pick out which application they really want launched, and have it
>>remembered.  If it can't be found, then the Finder would continue its search
>>path.
>
>What I do to accomplish this (using System 7 is necessary though)
>is to make an alias to the desired copy of the application and put
>it in a convenient place (for me that's the desktop) and then
>open documents by drag and drop on the application alias rather
>than double-clicking the document.

Better yet, use the nice little freeware utility "Save a BNDL."  It's *not*
a Finder *hack*, but it does exactly the necessary job.  Say you have two
different versions of an app on your disk--you just drop the one you want
launched when double-clicking the documents onto "Save a BNDL."  The utility
changes the Desktop Database entry for the app to achieve this.

Nice and convenient.


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J. S. Greenfield                                         greeny@top.cis.syr.edu
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