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So I guess I will need to learn another language, AppleScript? Sad but tough luck. Any good resources where I can poke around? Thanks! G

I tried both the SetFile method and using the ironically also OS 9 version of FileTyper. But in either case the change for the app to launch a file is for that file only. In this case it is a text file who the creator specified to use SimpleText (OS 9) unless a specific file has its creator...

Thanks. That's what I had thought was the way. But when I did an Option-I to see the info and selected "Application", I see the "Default Application Section" and the button for changing that default is not clickable. I tried to repeat this as root (relogged in) and it still would not let me...

Hi, Anyone know why I get a "Bus Error" when I try "top" either as a normal user or as root? Thanks, G

Cool . I will try that. Sorry, but I am a Windows/Linux user; first time using a Mac. Now if I double click on an sit file on my harddrive, indeed 6.5 is launched. I made that possible by making a symbolic link to the updated expander. But is there a way in Mac just as with this IE method...

Good. I tried what you did and IE is opened as if I double clicked on the icon. The trouble is that I need to open a URL using IE. Doing the netscape way didnt work: open /Application/IEPATH http://www.apple.com It just ignores the path. Doing simple: open http://www.apple.com results in...

I ran StuffIt 6.0 and it said there's a new one I should consider installing. So I did. I downloaded the thingie and went through the installation. A new folder called Stuff It Lite 6.5 is created. I ran Stuff it again (like when downloading another program) and it again asked me if I want...

Oh boy. I will just wait for version 10.1 and hope that it will add new locale skins as well as keyboard types to the OS. Hope it won't be crowded this weekend when stores have the 10.1 version available.... Oops, did I just make the crowd bigger? G

Hi, Currently if I double click on a text file my OS 9 classic is started up (if not already so) and then the old SimpleText is launched. Any idea how to change it to something like TextEdit? Thanks

Hi, How can I invoke a program like Internet Explorer from the command line? On Linux, you can, for example, just type netscape & in your terminal. Well, my reason for asking this is that forte wants to invoke netscape when I run a jsp. I don't have netscape and not in the mood to install...

Yeah, I looked for a chinese keyboard and there isnt one for me on this US OS X. And even if there were one, how could it be useful if I can't read the "Chinese" I am supposedly typing out if I lack a chinese viewer? Like I tried to read this Chinese file from a lexmark driver, and it is truly...

Hi, How can I read documents in Chinese on OS X? Are there NJStar equivalents out there for OS X? How can I get Chinese interface like I would with Japanese and European locales? The Internationalization option has no Chinese. Finally, how do I write in Chinese? (Same question as the...