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don't go to all this trouble!
Authored by: joey03 on Mar 20, '03 11:51:24AM

You don't need a script. Remember that MacOS X can use creator and type codes in addition to file extensions. So all you need to do is do a get info on one of the downloaded .smi files and specify RealOne Player as the app always to be used to open it. That's all you need to do. The system should henceforth distinguish between RealOne Player .smi files and DiskCopy .smi (self-mounting image) files.



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don't go to all this trouble!
Authored by: ylon on Mar 20, '03 12:40:35PM

I tried that myself a couple of days ago and it did not work. Any detailed explanation as to how you got it to work as it is not as simple as you seem to make it appear?



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don't go to all this trouble!
Authored by: pheel on Mar 20, '03 06:44:41PM

This was my first instinct too, but I couldn't make it work. When you change the default application in the file's info box, you get a confirmation dialog. It says in effect that all files with that extension will now be opened with the app you chose. So it does to some degree depend on the files extension.

I tried downloading an actual self-mounting image file after doing is, and RealOne tried to open it. Is there some way to get finer-grained prefs than this, so that it does distinguish between the two kinds of files?



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