Re: srvr
Re: srvr
- Subject: Re: srvr
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 18:05:36 -0800
At 15:07 +0000 1/4/01, Mr Tea wrote:
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Information about 'file type' is contained in each individual file (in what
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is called the 'resource fork', I believe...). This info can be accessed by a
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number of methods, none of them intuitive, or through third party products
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like the 'Types Change' contextual menu plug-in.
The file type and creator type are not stored in the file. They are stored
separately, as part of the Finder information for the file. That is the
third part of the two-part Macintosh file.
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It would be massively useful if Apple could get it together to include this
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information in the standard 'get info' window, but their mission to conceal
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does not allow this.
Sherlock does this quite nicely, as has been pointed out. (Both versions
of Sherlock.) So did Find File.
Rumor has it that Mac OS 9.1 will be released sometime. Sub-rumor has it
that the get info window has been adjusted in Mac OS 9.1, but I have no
idea whether the adjustment includes this obvious--to many of us--need.
[It's not obvious to someone who just bought their first computer,
however...it probably doesn't belong in the General display in the get info
window (particularly since it's nearly certain that some of the codes are
obscene in some language(s).]
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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