Hi Joel,

On Monday, August 26, 2002, 2:41:08 PM, you wrote:

JN> MacOS mechanism.  With MacOS, the directory entry of each file
JN> has two attributes "creator" and "file type" which are normally
JN> set by the application that creates the file.  The "creator"

What happens when you download a file from the Internet?

On the AmigaOS, such information is kept in the icon file. You can
click on the icon and press Amiga-I to edit it.

(BTW,  why,  being  Win  the  only broken OS when it comes to file
types,  do  people  tend to follow it --- even on Linux? The whole
world  seems  to  rely  on  file  extensions... This is likely the
result of people never having seen anything except Win... I wonder
how   come  there's  only  so  few  people  really  realizing  the
(cultural) disaster MS has created...)

Regards,
   Gabriele.
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Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

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