On 7 Nov 2002 at 19:33, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 05:32 PM 11/7/02 -0500, Darcy James Argue wrote: > >Macs have no problem opening > >documents in whatever application you specify (so long as the > >application is capable of handling that filetype). > > Previous post noted that I can play a graphic, display an mp3.file, or open > an application binary in a text editor, even where the application isn't > 'capable' of handling the filetype, by changing the filetype. > > Here's what I mean: > http://maltedmedia.com/photos/darcy1.jpg is your email as a sound file > (extension changed to .wav and opened as mono 16bit 44.1KHz). > http://maltedmedia.com/photos/darcy2.jpg is your email as a graphic > (extension changed to .bmp and opened as grayscale with aliasing). > http://maltedmedia.com/photos/darcy3.html is extension changed to html > (which would display as a webpage if the email was sent in HTML), and > changing to .txt opens in Notepad, and to .doc opens in MSWord. > > Some are easy & obvious, but when working in electroacoustics or graphics, > the easy change of ownership helps the work flow quickly!
To me, that's all a flaw of Windows, rather than a feature. That is, depending on a part of the filename to determine which program should open it by default is dumb. I've always wanted a file system where I could say that I preferred that JPEG files open with a certain program, but that I could also tell it all the other programs that could handle the format. Then, the OPEN WITH shortcut menu ought to give me the list of the programs that are compatible with the file type (which should be stored as metadat somewhere in the file system database). But hell will freeze over before we have anything that good in Windows. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
