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Article #26425Re: How to coerce the finder to open different application
From: Werner Uhrig
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1988 23:26
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1988 23:26
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I know that Darin Adler wrote a program RANGER with which you could change the type of selected (all?) files of a certain type to another - and, I believe, I had uploaded it at some time and that should make it availabe at the SUMEX, SIMTEL20 and many other archives. Darin wrote that program to change the type of MacPaint-docs to SuperPaint (or was it FullPaint?) - and that it worked for other types also. I also remember a second, slightly different program that was even more powerful (or was it the other way around?) - but can't remember the name ... -- (prefered mailbox:) werner%rascal@sally.utexas.edu ....!ut-sally!rascal.ics.utexas.edu!werner (if rascal is unreachable:) werner@astro@sally.utexas.edu werner@utastro.uucp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ut-sally!ut-emx!kraut From: kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: How to coerce the finder to open different application Message-ID: <1233@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 16 Mar 88 23:26:21 GMT References: <12964@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <479@stech.UUCP> Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 15 Summary: there is a program with which to change the type of all files on disk