At 10:37 AM 2/9/01 -0800, WJCarpenter wrote:
>hubert> There are currently no Mac creator, but there will be one. I
>hubert> just need to register it.
>
>Please do so. It's one of the bits of optional-but-suggested info
>that I can supply during the MIME subtype registration process. (And
>that pretty much exhausts what I know about Mac creators, though I
>guess I also know it's a 4-byte thingy.)
Here's the relevant thread between Hub and I on this topic:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/January/0254.html
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/January/0305.html
Is there consensus that Hub can go ahead and register something like the
following creator/filetype combinations with Apple?
ABIW/ABW for AbiWord documents
ABIW/zABW for compressed AbiWord documents
Paul
PS: Some of the XP issues from earlier in that thread still need to be
addressed, but that's a separate discussion.
