>From: Carl West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: <lingo-l> setfiltermask on a Mac
>> My tests confirm what you are seeing, and you're not doing anything wrong.
>> Try shutting off the "Automatic File Translation" in the Mac OS Easy Open
>> control panel and that should solve your problem. The OS is showing you
>> all the files that can be recognized or translated into the desired type,
>> or something like that.
>
>Thanks Bruce, that was it.
>Under OS 9.04, the control panel is File Exchange > File Translation,
>uncheck "Translate documents automatically'. Now setFiltermask works as
>expected.
Thanks for the feedback and follow up.
>I'm not sure how I feel about having to turn that off. I'll try running
>without it for a while. Can't count on the user having it unchecked. grump.
I guess you'd have to manually use FileIO to get a list of files of the
appropriate type and kludge your own file browser by hand then.
I wouldn't worry about it. Just add it to the ReadMe file.
Bruce
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