Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!think!ephraim
From: ephraim@think.COM (ephraim vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Anybody using MacWorkStation?
Message-ID: <21606@think.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 88 18:00:27 GMT
References: <21441@think.UUCP> <144@iravcl.ira.uka.de>
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In article <144@iravcl.ira.uka.de> joachim@iravcl.ira.uka.de writes:
>In article <21441@think.UUCP>, ephraim@think.COM (ephraim vishniac) writes:
>> I'm especially interested in how well it can handle a situation such
>> as the following:
>> [...]

>I think MWS is not the product for you. Of course you can do that,
>but you'll have to write external commands to do that.

I don't have any problems with that.  What I'm hoping to do is to
write significantly less with MWS than I would without it.

>(1) your MWS application cannot have documents itself. It can process
>    TEXT and MacWrite documents, but there is no double-clicking.

Why is this so?  If I add FREFs to the bundle of my MWS application,
won't that let make my own types of double-clickable documents?  Or is
there no internal hook to let me do my own open-document processing
when these added types are opened?

I'm still waiting for information that Apple Software Licensing is
sending me.  Once I get that, I'll post a summary of what I've
learned. 

Ephraim Vishniac					  ephraim@think.com
Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214

     On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put
     into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"