On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Brian May wrote: [snip]
> - The information it proprietary, and not used anywhere else. That's true... > - I am not very familar with the operating system, so there might > be more points that I have missed. Perhaps there are difficulties > loading a file for one application inside another application? This isn't a problem. There are two different values here; creator and the filetype. > - AFAIK, Macintosh doesn't really store "file type" but rather "which > application is this file associated with". So if you have multiple > programs that deal with the same file type, the file has to be > associated with *exactly one* application. (not sure about this) Sort of, yes. You associate the type with one program, which will be the default program to open if you double-click on such a file. This won't influence the possibility to edit the file in another program, however. > - just curious: what other times do you need to change this file type? The time is stored in the resource-fork on the Mac, and sometimes it gets screwed (programs that can't transfer dual/multi forked programs over the net properly, etc.) [snip] /David Weinehall _ _ // David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /> Northern lights wander \\ // Project MCA Linux hacker // Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ </ Full colour fire </
