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In article <1993Jan26.232845.12294@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu writes:
> How can a user "inform" the FileViewer that files with certain
> extensions should have a corresponding app selected as the default
> launch app?  It's easy enough to select an app already displayed in the
> Tools panel of the inspector, but how does one add a new choice?  Dragging
> an icon into that area doesn't seem to work (it should!)... 

I havent tried this - but it may work.

You could edit the iconheader file of the relevant app, 
using otool or SegHoarker if necessary to extract/replace it.
(is that still necessary in 3.0?)
you could write one of those new fangled 3.0 filter services to
do any necessary conversion.

FileViewer seems to treat executable files differently - letting you use
Edit or Terminal as the default tool.  I'ld prefer Stuart, but since the choice
is not driven by the file extension - the above trick wont work.

This is where using file extensions as types starts to break down.
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