On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 16:10:22 -0500
Bill Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gimme a hint. Is this found in the FAQ, OS9, ??? And have you any idea
of
> why two perfectly good OS 8.1 control panels would turn into mere
documents
> just because they were dragged back onto System 7.1? 64 bit v 32 bit
maybe?
>
> Bill
Because they are files of type 'APPC" (creator 'apcp'), which 7.1
doesn't recognize as being control panels? (Actually they are
applications. I think that was part of the Copland plan -- at 1 time,
whatever phase the moon may have been in at that point in the mid '90s
-- which involved, among other things, getting rid of the control
panels & extensions, & just having every executable just be an app, a
la *nix -- which they eventually did, in OS X, but this, like so much
of Copland, was a sort of half-@$$ed step towards that.)
--
Over,
Jutso
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