From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,23d9487ffc2225ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:28:10 -0500 From: "David Shochat" Subject: Re: gnat for MacOS Tiger? [OT] Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3amdnUqCVb2eHULZnZ2dnUVZ_qWdnZ2d@comcast.com> <1155499587.534952.122620@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <14OdndB34oUkBkLZnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d@comcast.com> <1155506339.779024.18850@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <130820062222465542%williams@ntlworld.com> User-Agent: pan 0.108 (Mama's Little Joyboy Loves Lobsters, Lobsters) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:28:10 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.61.240.117 X-Trace: sv3-g0Wvoabx1RIZ2C3a1wDCe01OP9Oh/HgOG6RQcLzI3CzZLNZpNEBwC3p3pS2rTH7FyZ+KBOjVtCmf1cF!vgsA1OD/By94ntNefshZfjum2k0RRrcOhfmmo9PQQ7PXfUpYZB4Aa1DqEMBStnK/kUywqOrJt6lu!qcKr3dHeBQZlhtE= X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6221 Date: 2006-08-15T20:28:10-05:00 List-Id: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:05:33 +0100, (see below) wrote: > > If your Mac is like mine, > it already had a trial copy of MS Office on its HD at time of purchase. > If that had claimed the file type for itself, > it would have been invoked (quite correctly) by OS X. > Yes, you are right. It is gone from my machine, but I checked my wife's iMac and sure enough, there is an "Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive" folder there under Applications. I had totally misunderstood what was going on. Thanks for clearing that up. -- David