Apple 8100/80AV manual Assigning Macintosh programs to DOS documents

Opening a document by double-clicking its icon

Before you can open a DOS document by double-clicking its icon, you need to use the PC Exchange control panel to specify which Macintosh application programs will open DOS documents, as described next.

Assigning Macintosh programs to DOS documents

Using the PC Exchange control panel, you can assign Macintosh application programs to DOS documents. For example, you can specify that all DOS documents whose filenames end with the suffix .XLS are to be opened in the Macintosh program Microsoft Excel.

The figure below shows the PC Exchange control panel with some assignments already created.

DOS documents whose names end with this suffix…

…as this type of document.

…are to be opened by this Macintosh program…

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