Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!iuvax!pur-ee!a.cs.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!mcnabb From: mcnabb@m.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Comp.binaries.mac moderation (FLAME Message-ID: <8400013@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 12 Jul 88 15:12:00 GMT References: <4927@husc6.harvard.edu> Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:husc6.harvard.edu:4927:m.cs.uiuc.edu:8400013:000:941 Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!mcnabb Jul 12 10:12:00 1988 I beg to differ with at least a portion of the flame alleging uselessness of recent postings in comp.binaries.mac. The Perfectionist DA would be quite useful to many more people if it allowed one to specify the type/creator fields explicitly. Even better, before beginning the process of allowing selection of text files for adoption by a different appl, it should allow one to choose any favorite application that can handle text files. It should then look in that application to find the proper type and creator fields to use, and then start the adoption process (i.e. user should not even have to know the magic strings for his/her application). So here's another request to the author of this (perhaps quite useful after all) DA to post the source. D. McNabb Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign mcnabb@cs.uiuc.edu ...!{cmcl2,seismo,uunet}!uiucdcs!mcnabb