Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!princeton!phoenix!pucc!IJLUSTIG From: IJLUSTIG@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Irvin Lustig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Finder 6.0 "feature" is a pain Message-ID: <4025@pucc.Princeton.EDU> Date: 10 Dec 87 19:23:04 GMT Reply-To: IJLUSTIG@pucc.Princeton.EDU Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 18 Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article With previous releases of the Finder, one could select an application and a file that was created by another application, choose "Open" from the FILE menu in the Finder, and the file would be opened by the chosen application. For example, one could take a TEXT file created by one application (say EDIT, or EXCEL), and have MacWrite startup with that file by choosing MacWrite and the file, and then selecting Open. This no longer works, presumably because Multifinder would get confused. But it doesn't even work in the Finder 6.0. I use this feature all of the time, and now I'll have to find some workaround. This feature was especially useful in Excel, where I could open multiple TEXT files transferred from a remote machine using Kermit, without having to startup Excel and do afor each of the files. -Irv Lustig Dept. of Civil Engineering and Operations Research Princeton University Preferred E-Mail Address: irv@marie.princeton.edu