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From: liberte@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Comp.binaries.mac moderation (FLAME
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Date: 15 Jul 88 22:41:00 GMT
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[ /* Written  7:48 am  Jul 13, 1988 by sbb@esquire.UUCP in zaphod:comp.sys.mac */
[ In article <8400013@m.cs.uiuc.edu> mcnabb@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
[ >The Perfectionist DA would be quite useful to many more people if it
[ >allowed one to specify the type/creator fields explicitly.
[ 
[ Even better would be if someone posted the program "Lone Ranger" (that
[ might not be the exact name, but it's close).  It allows you to search
[ and replace any type and/or creator for a whole directory of files at a
[ time.  


Best of all would be a utility that allowed the user to modify
a map between types/creators and applications.  The documents would retain their
original type and creator, but could be opened with your favorite application.

I'm told that the Desktop has the necessary info in its resources.
But it would be nice to have a friendly interface that presented a list
of types and creators and allowed the associated application to be changed.

Dan LaLiberte
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu