On Mon 2023-01-23 09:12 PM MST -0700, <mailma...@coopercontent.com>
wrote:
$ file ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist
/Users/XXXX/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist: Apple
binary property list
Do not know when "old-style ASCII" plists were superseded by "Apple
binary."
I don't think it's a matter of when. I'm running MailMate 5925 on Mac
OS 13.1. I think the "binary" designation is just a way to keep text
programs from understanding the file as a text-based file. (BBEdit is
one of the few programs that will attempt to open any file you ask it
to.)
The plot thickens. It really is a binary file:
[daffy] $ head ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist | cat -v
bplist00?^PM-^W^@^A^@^B^@^C^@^D^@^E^@^F^@^G^@^H^@ ^@
...
But bbedit does in fact open it just fine. I think it must be doing some
magic behind the scenes, maybe based on plutil or equivalent. The user
manual says:
BBEdit transparently opens and displays the contents of any bz2 or
gzip-compressed files (“.bz2”, “.gz” and “.gzip”
files), as well as
tarballs (“.tar” files) and binary plists (“.plist” files),
both
directly and during multi-file search.
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