[Ham-Mac] How to Change file extension Associatation in OS X

Formsmaven formsmaven at comcast.net
Fri Nov 5 19:40:14 EDT 2010


Drag it (or a copy) into text edit?
On Nov 5, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Dick Kriss wrote:

> Jim Reisert AD1C does a great service to the amateur community with his
> distribution
> of the cty.dat file.
> 
> <http://www.country-files.com/cty/index.htm#Fldigi>
> 
> My OS X has a file association issue with the .dat extension. OS X 10.6
> wants 
> to open the downloaded cty.dat file with the Graphic Converter and I have
> to
> manually Get Info and change it to Open with a text editor.
> 
> This is an issue in my setup and there is nothing wrong with the format of
> AD1C's cty.dat file.
> 
> Where in OS X can I modify my OS X setup to open a .dat file?
> 
> 73 de Dick AA5VU
> 
> 
> 
> 
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