Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!iuvax!pur-ee!a.cs.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!zaphod!liberte From: liberte@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Application mapper Message-ID: <900004@zaphod> Date: 13 Jul 88 20:54:00 GMT Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #N:zaphod:900004:000:628 Nf-From: zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu!liberte Jul 13 15:54:00 1988 I like to double click on various document icons just to see if they will open. Many times it is a text file or a MacWrite file which cannot be opened in that way (I dont use MacWrite). So it occured to me that what is needed is a mapping between creators and applications. Thus I could specify that whenever I double click a text file, I really want to read it with Word or whatever. Is it possible to patch the finder with this kind of mapping? Such a mapper would reduce the need for programs such as the recently posted Perfectionist. Dan LaLiberte National Center for Supercomputing Applications liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu