KennyTM~ wrote: >> True, but then, there is no rule that says that on windows a file >> manager must use the extension. However, on Windows, all the file >> managers I've tried have used the extension (actually, most of the >> time they don't use the extension themselves, they simply ask >> Windows to open the file and Windows uses the extension), whereas on >> UNIX most file managers use the file contents (usually, they don't >> use the file command, but instead rely on libmagic directly) and >> most applications will ignore the extension when asked to open a >> file (OK, some Windows applications do that too but on *NIX most of >> them do). >> >> Jerome > > Mac OS X is UNIX. Finder cares about the file extension (besides metadata).
most: You can use *most* to refer to the majority of a group of
things or people or the largest part of something.
One counter example does not invalidate my point. Especially when
the example is invalid: MacOS X is *not* UNIX. True, the low level
parts are UNIX-based, which makes it easy to port UNIX apps, however
that doesn't make the whole into a UNIX. In particular, finder was
ported from older versions of MacOS and inherits a large part of its
behaviour from those older versions.
Jerome
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