Opening dos documents on your macintosh, Opening a document from within a macintosh program, Opening a document by double-clicking its icon – Apple Macintosh PowerBook 150 User Manual

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Opening DOS documents on your Macintosh

Opening a document from within a Macintosh program

The surest way to open a DOS document on the Macintosh is to use the Open
command from within an application program.

1

Open the program you want to use.

2

Choose Open from the File menu.

A directory dialog box appears.

3

Select the document you want, and click Open.

If you have problems opening the document, see the Macintosh Reference book.

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.

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Exchanging Files with DOS or Windows

Many programs have buttons or pop-up
menus that let you open or import
documents of a particular file format.

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