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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!)... 

This is partially what the old 'Unknown' application does, though I've not
posted a 3.0 version of it since it's original function keeps getting reduced
as NeXT fixes/changes things.  It basically is a remapping app that assigns
icons and owners to file types that don't have them don't have the right ones.

Unfortunately, Unknown or any of the various 'edit the iconheader' suggestions
are not guaranteed to work as it also depends on how the target application is
implemented.  It has to both accept files with the appropriate method and not
be overly picky about filtering out extensions it doesn't recognize.  (Some
do reject based on extension even though the content might have been OK.)

- Christopher