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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: Silly NeXT question from user who should know the answer
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:25:22 GMT
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- gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes:
-
- >Hmm, I'm not sure that it should. Interesting idea, I guess. I'm not sure
- >that it shouldn't, either... :-)
- I always have wished it did.
-
- >The application itself advertises what kinds of files it knows how to
- >handle. So the person writing the application has to put that part in.
- >Then, the user has to put the application in one of the standard paths (ie,
- >in /LocalApps, or ~/Apps, etc). You could add more paths to the list of
- >ones which are checked by changing the appropriate "defaults" value (which
- >is "Workspace ApplicationPaths").
-
- For me, I find that hitting Cmd-u and then waiting about 10-15
- seconds (depending on network load and how big my ApplicationPaths
- is) will do the trick. It's not instantaneous, even when you put
- the application in question on your dock.
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