Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
>
> Garth Wallace wrote:
> ------snip-----
>
>>Of course, Mac's version isn't much better. Instead of a 3-character
>>extension, it's 2 4-character extensions that you can't see without
>>poking around with a resource editor or Norton's old Fast Find.
>>
>
> What you refer to is type and creator codes. What they allow is that if
> say you have a given file and you have more than one application that
> can read it the sysytem automatically generates a list of applications
> that can open said file. You just scan the list and choose the desired
> one and the application opens automatically.
>
> Generally one doesn't need to see the type and creator codes. They are
> just in the background doing their work.
I'm speaking as a very-seldom user of Macs here, so I may be showing
some ignorance. But that that's never stopped me before :)
My problem is that the Mac isn't getting enough usage out of those
codes. It'd be nice if in the Info box, you could choose from a list of
apps associated with a type to "Open this file with ..." when you
double-click it.
Or at the very least find some way to duplicate the Windows
right-click/Open With functionality. If a file's on the desktop but
associated with the wrong app, it's a mild pain to have to open the
application, choose Open from the menu, navigate to the file (at least
Cmd-D lists the desktop right away, can't say that about Win2K) and
select it. Having something similar (even though the standard Macs lack
a right-button) would be nice, IMHO.
--Jason
