On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:48:20 +1300, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Rhodri James wrote: >> Even then there was RiscOS, which divorced file names from file types >> entirely. > > As did classic MacOS. > > I believe MacOSX also has the ability to store a file type as metadata, > but it doesn't seem to be used much.
Amiga os used a separate file as the ICON & this contained lots of meta data including which application to open the file with (usualy the application that created it) -- "I'd love to go out with you, but I have to stay home and see if I snore." -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
