On Apr 25, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Joe Huber wrote:
I think the answer is NO, and then the MacType could be dropped..
But if the file kept its MacType, then the user couldn't "break'
the file just by renaming it.
Gosh I just HATE the incredibly stupid idea of file extensions.
File extensions aren't stupid. They're a reasonable hack for
encoding a few bytes of metadata that works across file systems.
What would be incredibly stupid would be for Apple to drop mac types
in favor of extensions. I think uniform type identifiers are
intended to be the long-term replacement for mac types, but I haven't
really read the documentation.
Charles Yeomans
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