>I've written a few programs in the past that accepted text files generated
>by other programs.  Now I find the programs halting with the error message:
>
>"The document named was not created with (my program's name).  To open
>select an alternative program."
>
>For some reason the program is now apparently checking the Creator item in
>the file I wish to read.
>
>Can anyone suggest why this occurs?


Isn't that one of the things MacOS Easy Open (Evil Open) does? Try adding TEXT
as one of the file types to the BNDL resource of your app. That should allow
your app to be an acceptable "alternative program" so the message hopefully
won't appear.


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