On Sep 24, 2009, at 1:25 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:

On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:

If the document is a file, Finder will add a 'usro' resource which contains the absolute path to the application to be used. Thanks to Alistair who pointed me to: <http://sutes.co.uk/2009/09/creator-codes-are-not-replaced.html >

So the ancient-but-elegant notion of a creator code has been thrown out, to be replaced by the use of the ancient-but-lame resource fork, as well as ancient-and-fragile hardcoded paths? :-P

A pity, sounds like the perfect use for an extended attribute.

-Ed

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