Re: Answer File Command

[Gregory Lypny]

Hello again,

In response to my question about filtering out text files with Answer File, there was some suggestion that Mac OS X is a bit quirky in displaying files. Based on some of your suggestions, here's what I got with OS X (Jaguar) and two types of text files (Appleworks and plain text). In the first four cases below, which differ from one another only in the use of the words type or filter and quotation marks, AppleWorks text files are displayed but plain text are dimmed (bad). The fifth case, based on Andu's suggestion resulted in all files in the folder being dimmed! In other words, it does the opposite of what I understood it would do.

Answer File of type TEXT - displays Appleworks but dims plain text
Answer File of type "TEXT" - displays Appleworks but dims plain text
Answer File with filter TEXT - displays Appleworks but dims plain text
Answer File with filter "TEXT" - displays Appleworks but dims plain text
Answer File with filter "*.txt" - dims everything!

Greg

P.S. What is the convention for putting quotations around a word or phrase in an email to ensure something reasonable is displayed? Should I use the asterik?



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