On May 31, 2010, at 4:28 AM, julius wrote:

> 
> On 31 May 2010, at 10:06, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
>>> 
>>> Can you perhaps tell me which UTI maps onto NSPlainTextDocumentType
>> 
>> You would guess on kUTTypePlainText
>> 
>>> and which onto NSMacSimpleTextDocumentType ....?
>> 
>> In 3 major releases Apple didn't managed to declare UTI for modern file 
>> formats like sdef, 
>> so I doubt they defined an UTI for a dead file format like Simple Text.
>> 
> 
> That's a relief. At least I now know that these mappings are undocumented.
> But still does each one of us have to rediscover these by trial and error, 
> add it all together and that must make for thousands of hours lost repeating 
> the same thing over and over again. Reminds me of Einstein's definition of 
> insanity. 
> 

Remember, that although creator codes are out, extensions *seem* to be 
recognized,
 and... being a BSD, there is still also the *magic number* for file types...
(the magic file does get updated 
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