DeMoN LaG wrote: > > "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 26 Dec 2001: > > actually no. on the Mac Platform Netscape 6 and Communicator 4.7.9 > > share the exact same Type and creator Codes APPL / MOSS. > > Shoulda kept your mouth shut, Jonas. Now we gotta here the whole speel > about type and creator codes again. I fail to see why you keep saying > how the Mac OS was done so poorly that it's not possible to run two > different applications based on little 4 letter strings associated with > them. Hell, I can run two programs called "hi.exe" on Windows at the > same time, nothing stops me from doing that > > -- > ICQ: N/A (temporarily) > AIM: FlyersR1 9 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ = m
PC's don't use Type and Creator Codes. With the use of Internet Control panel and File and Type and creator codes On a Mac you can take any given file and double click on the file and it will open the most appropriate application automatically Unless things have changed since DOS/W3.11.W 95 days when you double click on an application you have to browse to the application you desire open said document. Or you have topen the application first, then the file. On the Mac because of the Type and Creator Codes if you download say a PC Excel File it will automatically choose Excel Mac to open it or of you don't have Excel but have ClarisWorsk (Appleworks) it will open it automatically. There is a lot to be said for using type and creator codes If Manufacturers remeber not to give something totally different a same creator code. Netscape 6 is as much different from Communicator as IE is. But because IE's creator code is different it doesn't compete. The Type/Creator code system is not such a bad idea. remember you have 4 places in creator code and Type code. You can concevieably use any of the 26 letters in the alphabet in each place. I hope my math is right but the are 26 to the fourth power different combinations in each. so there are almost infinite possibilities. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillip M. Jones, CET |MEMBER:VPEA (LIFE) ETA-I, NESDA,ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:275-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112-1809 |[EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/america/default.htm http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/message/default.htm
