Extension Mapper 10 Info

From: DaBexCo@aol.com Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 02:41:30 -0500 Subject: double clicking on Netware Hi, I saw your problem (on Info-Mac) about double clicking files and not being able to launch application on the server. We have had that problem on some of our macs. Not all of them though. I recently got the latest NetWare client files for the Mac. On the disk is a file called Extension Mapper. I read the ReadMe file on the disk. Here is what it says: ( I appologize, this is long. But I thought all of it would be of interest to you). Extension Mapper 1.0 Read Me NOTE: The Extension Mapper application works only with NetWare servers running NetWare for Macintosh 4.0. == About Extension Mapping == Extension mapping associates Macintoshr application information with filename extensions. The Extension Mapper utility on the Macintosh allows a user to create and configure his or her own lists of mappings. The same file can be associated with different icons; users can therefore double-click an icon for the same file and launch different applications. For example, one Macintosh user can view a file created with WordPerfectr on a DOS PC as a Microsoft Wordr file, while another can view it as a MacWriter file. When using the Extension Mapper, keep these points in mind: * Extension mapping does not alter the contents or formatting of a file. The application associated with the file must understand the format of the file being launched. * Both DOS and Macintosh files are mapped. In the case of a Macintosh file, the existing Type and Creator is overridden in the Finder TO THE TYPE AND CREATOR OF THE MAPPING. * Extension mapping does not alter DOS files in any way. However, extension mapping may cause Macintosh files to have their Type and Creator permanently changed by the Finderx, or by writing the file. * The Extension Mapper application provides predefined default extension mappings. These defaults are listed in the section "Default Extension Mappings," below. If you double-click a file and the default application associated with the file is unavailable, the Finder informs you that the application that created the file cannot be found. * For the Extension Mapper to work with files stored on server volumes, you must enable extension mapping at the server with the AFPCON utility. If you start the utility before extension mapping is turned on at the server, you must exit the application and restart it in order to see the mappings. * A file named MY.DOCUMENT in the Macintosh name space will have the name MY.DOC in the DOS name space. As a result, the Extension Mapper interprets the filename extension as .DOC and maps the filename to the application associated with the .DOC filename extension. So, you should keep in mind that a file renamed for the DOS name space may have unexpected mappings. == Default Extension Mappings == These are the default applications and file types associated with each filename extension: .APP: Omnis 7r a…