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Article #4819Re: Silly NeXT question from user who should know the answer
From: David Lemson
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:25
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:25
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gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes: >Hmm, I'm not sure that it should. Interesting idea, I guess. I'm not sure >that it shouldn't, either... :-) I always have wished it did. >The application itself advertises what kinds of files it knows how to >handle. So the person writing the application has to put that part in. >Then, the user has to put the application in one of the standard paths (ie, >in /LocalApps, or ~/Apps, etc). You could add more paths to the list of >ones which are checked by changing the appropriate "defaults" value (which >is "Workspace ApplicationPaths"). For me, I find that hitting Cmd-u and then waiting about 10-15 seconds (depending on network load and how big my ApplicationPaths is) will do the trick. It's not instantaneous, even when you put the application in question on your dock. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
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