Re: BUG: Where's Application Support?
Re: BUG: Where's Application Support?
- Subject: Re: BUG: Where's Application Support?
- From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:28:53 +1000
On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 04:59 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
Thanks for the information, Chris. The reason why I wondered if "C Header
Source File" might be some sort of default for "no file type" documents is
because both of the following types of files appear on my computer as that
type of file, with a large "h" icon or sometimes totally blank:
1) Tab-delimited text files generated by Palm Desktop 4.0 for OS X. No
extension and, I think, no file type.
The Palm Desktop exported text files are type "TEXT". On Mac OS X,
if you have Project Builder installed, text files without any
extension are mapped to Project Builder, and apparently PB's default
description for files without extensions is "C Header Source File".
I'm not sure whether this is because Project Builder is claiming to
be the default editor for "TEXT" files, or whether Launch Services
(the OS facility that maps types and extensions to applications) is
simply buggy. It might also simply be that there are multiple
applications claiming "TEXT" files, and PB wins because it was
installed last.
It's because the definition of useful applications under UNIX is not
msword/msexcel/msppoint. (though you could replace item 1 with
simpleText or bbedit+QXP and item 3 with butchers paper or
transparency film for my personal list of useful.)
Unix is still a place where people who are interested in the physics
of clockspeed work. "The rest of us" as defined by Apple for the
years 1984-2001 are no longer a going concern. The "market" speaks
BASIC, if not C.
For example, If you having pressing commitments, e.g., you're
concerned that the USA is now a global suzerain with a shoot first
and ask questions later attitude (and live in a gung-ho satellite
state, like Australia) but don't know how to operate a UNIX BSD OS.
Then you should ask a younger relative (daughter, niece, son, nephew)
to pass on a Win98 or Mac System 6-7 machine. This was the time when
OS developers expected the "user" to be productive, useful people who
weren't interested in computers. I'd like system 6 interface to the
new UNIX kernel but I don't think I'll be getting it (journalists
tell me no-one reads this far into a piece, I can say what I like and
no-one will read it ;-)
--
Malcolm Fitzgerald
Database Manager
The Australian Society of Authors
phone: 02 9318 0877 fax: 02 9318 0530
http://www.asauthors.org mailto:email@hidden
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