DeMoN LaG wrote: > > "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 26 Dec 2001: > > > > Unless things have changed since DOS/W3.11.W 95 days when you > > double click on an application you have to browse to the > > application you desire open said document. Or you have topen the > > application first, then the file. > > > > Your memory was wrong back then, too. Windows anything did not require > browsing to the application to open a file. If I wanted to open a .txt > file, I double click it. It opens my default text viewer. Sure, you > can say "but the person who made it wanted it to open in <program>". > Fine. But now if I don't want to use that program, I have to work every > time so that it doesn't open in that program. > > I want to open an html file, I double click it, it launchs mozilla for > me. I want to open a .doc, Word opens for me. It's the same exact > affect, just achieved differently. For possibilities? Well, since most > programs use a 3 or 4 letter extension, though more are possible, and > those can be A-Z, 0 - 9, that gives 36 ^ 4 combinations, or 1,697,616. > Plus an extension can be more than 4 letters if you really want. > > -- > ICQ: N/A (temporarily) > AIM: FlyersR1 9 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ = m
it is just a different style of doing things. Using extensions in PC allows for certain applications to open certain files. The Mac up to 9.2.1 uses type and creator codes, for similar purposes. another option you have in Mac is taking file and droping it on the application you want to try to open it. Once open and saved then it its owned by that application.If it can't open it it will tell and not try. what do PC users do in the case of a file with a .doc extension. when they have both Word, WordPerfect, and AmiPro? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillip M. Jones, CET |MEMBER:VPEA (LIFE) ETA-I, NESDA,ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:275-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112-1809 |[EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/america/default.htm http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/message/default.htm
