On 9/18/01 2:40 PM, "Barry Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 18/9/01 7:21 pm, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> You're confusing two issues. OPIM is Entourage's _creator_ code, not the
>> file type. The creator code is not the problem. The file type Entourage uses
>> is MBOX, whereas the file type Eudora wants is TEXT. Yes, it is a text file,
>> but of a very special type. If you try importing 1 million other TEXT files
>> into Eudora, which don't happen to be constructed as mbox format but are
>> just plain old text files, or BBEdit files, or BinHex files, all of which
>> are TEXT files, it won't work. That's what's ambiguous. Since the only type
>> of text file that works is one in MBOX format, it should be honest and say
>> that it wants MBOX files. Entourage does the right thing by not being vague,
>> but precise. Entourage has now done all the work to make exporting into a
>> common standard format. If the Eudora developers want to make it easy for
>> users to switch to Eudora (as you'd think they would), they should specify,
>> or at least allow, the proper MBOX filer type to be recognized. Go complain
>> on the Eudora mailing list. This is the wrong place.
>
> I don't entirely agree with you here, Paul.
>
> Eudora can open any type of TEXTR file, it is true, but they will only be
> opened as mailboxes if they contain data in the correct format. Otherwise
> they will be opened as address books, filter files or plain text documents,
> depending on what sort of data they contain.
>
> THIS is the proper way of handling things - based on content, not on some
> arbitrary file type designation.
Based on content is not the MACINTOSH way of handling things like this. The
Mac has the concept of file types which is used rather than extensions or
content (OS X is a slightly different matter).
> If Eudora was to allow file type MBOX for Entourage, should it also allow
> whatever file type PowerMail may decide on when it implements this typoe of
> feature, or eMailers (if it was still in development)? Or Apple's Mail?
> Where does it end.
The way this is handled in the Macintosh community is that either Apple
decides on a file type, or a standard emerges from the applications. For
example, GIFf is the typical file type for GIF, based on what early programs
that handled GIF used. By your argument, these should be file type ???? or
TEXT, and applications should analyze the contents to see that it's a GIF.
Dan
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