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I have several different types of documents that come and go from my system
(MacSE) frequently and I store many of them for long periods of time. I have
MacWriteII which will handle all of them (ie. Word, WriteNow, MacWrite, etc.).

I want to be able to double click on a document regardless of type or where it
is, and have my MacWriteII application start up and (after converting it)
present the document double clicked on.

 -- I do not want to have to move the document into the MacWriteII folder in
    order to "double select and open".

 -- I do not want to have to use anything like On Que since I would spend all
    of my time configuring it and changing its configuration (same for the
    Launcher utility).

 -- I do not want to change the type (or any other aspect) of the document
    files that I am dealing with.

 -- I do not want to spend $$$ for word processors just for the "read-only"
    convenience of it all (or for that matter, the disk space required! 
    There can't be anything sadder than a disk-less Mac-hacker :-)

The closest I have come to a solution was to generate a copy of Launcher for
each document type's application (ie. one for Word, one for WriteNow, etc.) and
then using ResEdit, change the type of the Launcher application to match that
of the desired document's applications. Each copy of Launcher would then be set
to start MacWriteII. This was fine (ie. double click on a document anywhere
and MacWriteII would open) except that when MacWriteII opened, it had not
inherited the document that started it all. Instead it would have the generic
"Untitled" document.

QUESTIONS:

1) Is there any neat way that something like Launcher could be ResEdited to do
   this?

2) Are there any nice public domain tools to do this

3) In the abscence of the above, is there any ideas other than the above.

Thanks in advance.

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Jeff Wiseman:	....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@tellabs.chi.il.us