Re: (Mostly Off) OS X Miscellany...
Re: (Mostly Off) OS X Miscellany...
- Subject: Re: (Mostly Off) OS X Miscellany...
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 21:24:53 -0800
At 8:10 PM -0600 11/25/02, Peter Bunn wrote:
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I'm a very recent newcomer to OS X. I hate it, but here I am.
Get over it. 9 is dead.
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I have often used get/set references to file types and creator types when
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filtering, opening or otherwise 'handling' files and applications in
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pre-OS X systems. Are there now clear alternatives to these methods in
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OS X? Package id's? Bundle id's?
They still work, mostly. New apps don't always have creator types, although we try complaining to their authors if they don't.
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Is the Finder in OS X yet capable of 'sorting by name'? (I don't have
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Jag yet... and still prefer to imagine it as a bad TV drama.)
Sorting by name is the default, and you want Jaguar. It's better.
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Will AS shrivel on the vine as shell scripts, terminal commands, Perl and
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such like come into wider use?
No. It will take its place among these as a powerful interapplication scripting language.
Jon
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