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Documentation / Contents - File Handlers

• Overview of File Handlers
  • The Pair
  • What a File Type Is
• Opening a File
  • What Happens When You Open Something
  • Opening With a Particular Tool
• The File Handlers Panel
  • The File Type List
  • The Opens With List
  • The Detail Line
  • The Buttons
• Choosing a Handler
  • Auto-Pick Best
  • Try It
  • Opening Nothing
• Icons
  • The Available Icons List
  • Set Icon
• Creating New Files
• The Canonical Panel
• Where the Settings Live
  • The Master List
  • The Rule Files
  • The Ranking Tables
• From the Command Line
• Copyright Information

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The File Handlers help book is part of Blueprint, a clean-room revival of the SGI (Silicon Graphics) IRIX Interactive Desktop.

Copyright (c) 2026, Swift Griggs and The Cyanotype Project contributors. All rights reserved. Distributed under the BSD 2-Clause license.

Blueprint is not a product of, nor endorsed by, Silicon Graphics. "IRIX" and "Silicon Graphics" are used only to describe what Blueprint revives.

The extended File Handlers panel is Blueprint's own. The canonical face answers to IRIX's File Typing Rules editor and has not been reproduced from the original yet; see The Canonical Panel.