[OS X TeX] Open related... macro

[Martin Costabel]

Axel E. Retif wrote:
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> Could it be .bbl files don't have a default application to open with? In 
> my case (10.5.6) I get
> 
> Ada:Desktop axretif$ osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to name extension 
> of (choose file)'
> tex
> Ada:Desktop axretif$ osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to name extension 
> of (choose file)'
> bbl
> Ada:Desktop axretif$
> 
> but TeXShop is my default application to open all .bbl file.

This cannot be the whole explanation, because I have TeXShop as default 
app for .bbl, too, and Josep said he had also attributed all files with 
the extensions he wanted to TeXShop.

I don't have an explanation, I only observed on 2 machines with 10.5 
that .bbl is not considered a Finder extension, and on one machine with 
10.4 that it is. My conclusion was that this is related to the OS 
version, but it can very well be something else.

-- 
Martin