Finder 6.0 "feature" is a pain

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From: Irvin Lustig
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1987 19:23

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With previous releases of the Finder, one could select an application and
a file that was created by another application, choose "Open" from
the FILE menu in the Finder, and the file would be opened by the
chosen application.  For example, one could take a TEXT file created by
one application (say EDIT, or EXCEL), and have MacWrite startup with
that file by choosing MacWrite and the file, and then selecting Open.
This no longer works, presumably because Multifinder would get confused.
But it doesn't even work in the Finder 6.0.  I use this feature all of
the time, and now I'll have to find some workaround.  This feature was
especially useful in Excel, where I could open multiple TEXT files transferred
from a remote machine using Kermit, without having to startup Excel
and do a <Command-O> for each of the files.
 
-Irv Lustig
Dept. of Civil Engineering and Operations Research
Princeton University
Preferred E-Mail Address: irv@marie.princeton.edu

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From: IJLUSTIG@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Irvin Lustig)
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Subject: Finder 6.0 "feature" is a pain
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Date: 10 Dec 87 19:23:04 GMT
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