Associating external editor in Eclipse for OSX

How do I associate an external editor to eclipse?
With Windows and Linx I can do this with Preferences->General->Editors->File Associaion. I then click the file type (in this case *.doc), and browse to the application (either OpenOffice or MS Word) and select the app that I want. Then whenever I select a file of that type inside of eclipse, it opens the file in the associated editor.
But when do the same thing in OSX, the program never starts.
There must be some way to call OpenOffice or MS Word from inside eclipse.
Does anybody know how to do this in OSX?
Thank you for you help
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9) eclipse 3.2.2
Mac OS X (10.4.9)

This sounds like a bug. We probably don't test with a prompt
containing a carriage return. You can file this bug using
http://bugs.sun.com if you like. Look for the "Sun Studio" categories.
--chris

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