<< The second one is that apparently Geos can identify applications that data
files are created with independent of extension. (Much like QuickView in
Win95). In particular the OgDraw program appears to use a .00x extension
(x being an integer value)
and is not implicitly identified in my config, yet the correct program will
launch and Draw appeared in the transfer window by merely placing a saved
file in the DOC directory on the b:\drive. I'm apparently missing
something and I just hate it when things seem to happen by magic. >>
Warren, the default behavior for all Geos applications is to create document
files with a three digit extension. It's the DOS name of the file that gets
the
numeric extension, while the Geos name is up to 32 characters long.
When Geos encounters a file with a three digit extension, it assumes that
it's a Geos document file and it opens the file header (first 256 bytes) to
confirm that fact.
If indeed, it finds that the header *is* a Geos header, then the header also
contains the tokenID of the parent application, so it knows what application
to use. If it finds that the file is not a Geos file, then it does nothing
special.
Make sense?
Steve