Re: BUG: Where's Application Support?
Re: BUG: Where's Application Support?
- Subject: Re: BUG: Where's Application Support?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 06:47:03 -0700
On 6/19/02 4:28 AM, "Malcolm Fitzgerald" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 04:59 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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>> Thanks for the information, Chris. The reason why I wondered if "C Header
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>> Source File" might be some sort of default for "no file type" documents is
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>> because both of the following types of files appear on my computer as that
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>> type of file, with a large "h" icon or sometimes totally blank:
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>> 1) Tab-delimited text files generated by Palm Desktop 4.0 for OS X. No
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>> extension and, I think, no file type.
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> The Palm Desktop exported text files are type "TEXT". On Mac OS X,
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> if you have Project Builder installed, text files without any
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> extension are mapped to Project Builder, and apparently PB's default
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> description for files without extensions is "C Header Source File".
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> I'm not sure whether this is because Project Builder is claiming to
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> be the default editor for "TEXT" files, or whether Launch Services
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> (the OS facility that maps types and extensions to applications) is
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> simply buggy. It might also simply be that there are multiple
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> applications claiming "TEXT" files, and PB wins because it was
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> installed last.
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It's because the definition of useful applications under UNIX is not
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msword/msexcel/msppoint. (though you could replace item 1 with
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simpleText or bbedit+QXP and item 3 with butchers paper or
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transparency film for my personal list of useful.)
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Unix is still a place where people who are interested in the physics
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of clockspeed work. "The rest of us" as defined by Apple for the
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years 1984-2001 are no longer a going concern. The "market" speaks
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BASIC, if not C.
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For example, If you having pressing commitments, e.g., you're
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concerned that the USA is now a global suzerain with a shoot first
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and ask questions later attitude (and live in a gung-ho satellite
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state, like Australia) but don't know how to operate a UNIX BSD OS.
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Then you should ask a younger relative (daughter, niece, son, nephew)
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to pass on a Win98 or Mac System 6-7 machine. This was the time when
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OS developers expected the "user" to be productive, useful people who
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weren't interested in computers. I'd like system 6 interface to the
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new UNIX kernel but I don't think I'll be getting it (journalists
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tell me no-one reads this far into a piece, I can say what I like and
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no-one will read it ;-)
I read that far, Malcolm, but I have to say that I haven't the faintest idea
what you're complaining about. Progress? Microsoft? Unix? Unix, I think.
Could you try again, perhaps with a touch more coherence?
I'd also be interested if anyone knows why Project Builder, rather than
TextEdit, is considered by OS X to be the default application for TEXT.
(Yes, I know that TextEdit's native habitat is RTF, but it seems equally at
home with TEXT.)
--
Paul Berkowitz
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