Chipp,
No- MacOSX has no problem launching files based upon extension. I
believe the problem is that your can override that behavior by
explicitly setting a file type. Since Revolution defaults to setting
this to TEXT, you have to manage it yourself to avoid getting screwy
files.
I would hope that you could at least clear the setting in Revolution,
or it does indeed make it very difficult to produce double-clickable
files from Rev. I can't say that I've tried...
HTH,
Brian
Thanks to everyone who replied.
Let me get this right. You all are saying Macs _CAN'T LAUNCH A FILE
BASED UPON EXTENSION_ ?
I understood why this was in MacOS9, but you would think that would've
changed by now...it is 2006 and the OS is supposedly modern. Surely
there is a setting somewhere which manages all this? After all, we do
live in a world with more than one OS.
Or, do I need to create a lookup table and reset filetypes for each
and every file downloaded? How do all of you do this?
Thanks again for your comments!
-Chipp
Ken Ray wrote:
On 5/8/06 6:49 PM, "Mark Schonewille"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi Chipp,
Check the file and creator type of the original file and make sure to
the filetype before using the put url command.
And FYI, for Office 2004 for Mac, the creator is "XCEL" and the type
is
"XLS8" (case sensitive).
If for some reason the .xls file has resources in it, you might also
want to
do a "resfile:" copy as well, as in:
set the fileType to "XCELXLS8"
put URL ("binfile:" & "text.xls") into URL ("binfile:" & "text2.xls")
put URL ("resfile:" & "text.xls") into URL ("resfile:" & "text2.xls")
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