[X Newbies] Linking Files to Applications [Was: Disk Utility/RESOLVED [TID]]

[Alex]

On Friday, Jan 23, 2004, at 10:09 Canada/Eastern, Vincent Cayenne wrote:

> At 9:30 AM -0500 1/23/04, Alex wrote:
>> However, the point I'm trying to make (I suggest reading my post 
>> again) is that this is not relevant to _assigning a document to an 
>> application using the Get Info dialogue_!
>
> But J's real point was that "_assigning a document to an application 
> using the Get Info dialogue_" was irrelevant to solution of the 
> problem. The academic issue of assignment was doing her no good *at 
> the client*. All else is insignificant in that situation.

Vincent, I urge you to re-read the posts in the thread before replying. 
I didn't suggest this was a solution to J's problem. J said she tried 
this, and it didn't work. That is, she tried to assign a file with the 
extension .cwk" to AppleWorks, and the system didn't allow her to do 
it. I pointed out that, on a properly installed OS X, it should have 
worked. If it didn't work, then either (a) J didn't do it properly, or 
(b) there's a problem with the system. Since J apparently didn't 
understand what I was talking about, I posted a lengthy description of 
linking documents to applications in OS X. Apparently, it wasn't an 
entirely wasted effort, since at least one other subscriber understood.

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