Actually if you know what programs you have that can open said file,
just drop the file on the icon of the application you want to open it.
Jason Fleshman wrote:
>
> 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
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