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Article #44867Re: Text file madness on the Mac.
From: Joel B Levin
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 20:10
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 20:10
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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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bbn!bbn.com!levin From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Text file madness on the Mac. Message-ID: <50477@bbn.COM> Date: 5 Jan 90 20:10:13 GMT References: <2706@aecom.yu.edu> <5900@ncar.ucar.edu> <1998@eric.mpr.ca> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) Distribution: na Organization: BBN Communications Corporation Lines: 18