So you think every application should contain a full text file analysis
package to determine what the file type actually is? That is a lot of code
you are planning on maintaining. You will have to make it fast code too, so
that when a file dialog is displayed, only the appropriate files are
displayed. In fact, your code should handle all binary file structures too,
that way we do not need to worry about file types at all....
on 01.9.18 2:40 PM, Barry Wainwright at [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.
>
> 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.
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