Garth Wallace wrote:
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> Of course, Mac's version isn't much better. Instead of a 3-character
> extension, it's 2 4-character extensions that you can't see without
> poking around with a resource editor or Norton's old Fast Find.
What you refer to is type and creator codes. What they allow is that if
say you have a given file and you have more than one application that
can read it the sysytem automatically generates a list of applications
that can open said file. You just scan the list and choose the desired
one and the application opens automatically.
Generally one doesn't need to see the type and creator codes. They are
just in the background doing their work.
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