Setting Applications to Launch for Specific File Extensions

[Richard Mercer]

Last time I tried it, OmniWeb opens .ma files in Mathematica just fine.
I took that to be an out-of the box feature.

Richard Mercer

>  I saw this posting on the net (comp.sys.next.software)
>  and I was wondering if the solution provided gives the
>  expected results, and if this can be extended to other
>  applications with specific file extensions?
>  

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>  Begin forwarded message:
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>  In article <3kv0do$mml at vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
>  gmk at pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu
>  

>  (Gottfried Mayer-Kress) writes:  |For example I want
>  OmniWeb to recognize that it should launch
>  

>  |Mathematica when it sees a file with .ma extension.  |
>  

>  If you open up the OmniWeb.app wrapper, you'll find a
>  file called
>  

>  content.list, which starts, application/oda
>  oda application/pdf                 pdf
>  application/postscript          ps application/rtf
>  rtf application/x-dvi               dvi
>  application/x-eprint            tex
>  application/x-eprint-tar        tar application/x-rtf
>  rtf application/x-tar               tar application/x-tex
>  tex application/x-texinfo           texinfo
>   ...
>  looks like .mime.types to me!  Try adding:
>  application/mathematica         ma
>  

>  I don't know if OmniWeb is completely driven by the
>  contents of this file.  -- Michael Friendly
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