Re: Some More Strange IIgs Behavior

[Daniel Webster <dwebster@monmouth.com>]

Reposting article removed by rogue canceller.

Actually, its Teach documents that I can't double click and open.  They
have the little graduation cap Icon.  Its really across the board,
though.  The OA-OPtion double click does not give me the chance to
assign an application to an icon. 

Leif Strand wrote:
> 
> In article <324529AA.4AF4@monmouth.com>,
> Daniel Webster  <dwebster@monmouth.com> wrote:
> >I am having some weird behavior in the finder when it comes to launching
> >programs.  If I hold down both the option and open Apple keys and click
> >on a document it tells me There is no application associated with this
> >document.  In the past performing this had given me the option of
> >assigning a program to a document.  What would cause this to no longer
> >function?  I am considering doing a system reinstall.
> 
> You mean Option and Control (Option to present the choose-application
> dialog, Control to make the association permanent).  This does not work
> with a "generic" document (one that does not have a special icon), which
> makes the feature slightly less useful than it could be.  You will have
> to use an icon or resource editor to assign an application to such a
> document.
> 
> --Leif