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- Subject: Re: Which app is launched for what file suffix?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.081421.27143@urz.unibas.ch>
- From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:14:21 GMT
- Reply-To: frank@ifi.unibas.ch
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- References: <12261@cayman.COM>
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- Organization: Institut fuer Informatik
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- In article <12261@cayman.COM> writes:
- > Where is the mapping between a given filename suffix and the app that is
- > launched with the icon is clicked in the File Browser? My machine has taken
- to
- > launching the "Background" application for .ps files, presumably instead of
- the
- > Previewer application.
- >
- > How does one change this?
- > --
- > Jay Batson
- > Product Marketing
- > Cayman Systems, Inc.
- > jbatson@cayman.com
- > (617) 494-1999
-
- [Hey, this message got to Europe, although the distribution field sys usa...]
-
- Select a .ps file, press cmd-3 (or, in the browser, select Tools Instpector
- Tools) and select the program to be activated for these files. Click 'Set
- Default' that's it.
- Robert
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