Hi, Volker,
Volker Nitsch wrote:
>
> Know only oold macs. there each file knows its programm,
> there is no distinction by type...
>
Both creator and type information have been in the MacOS file
system at least since the mid-80's, if not from the very
beginning. I did Mac development in that time frame (e.g.,
GUI-driven barcode label printing software), and used the file
type distinction (e.g., to handle label design files differently
from content data files).
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, this information was not
exposed to the end user directly. However, it was detectable,
e.g. when MacWrite saved a document as "TEXT" versus native
MacWrite format, a different icon was used for the document.
-jn-
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