Re: Dot files
Re: Dot files
- Subject: Re: Dot files
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:00:17 -0700
- Thread-topic: Dot files
You must have meant a different example for a text editor. TextEdit exists
only in OS X (and its formatted text files are .rtf, which will transfer
fine to Windows without resource or meta info). Perhaps you meant formatted
TEXT files, which SimpleText could display back in OS 7-9? You couldn't add
color in SimpleText itself, mind you, although you could display it. I think
maybe you could do Bold, Underline, Italics? I've forgotten. But certainly
with a better styled text editor, such as Tex-Edit Plus - which may be what
you were thinking of - you could have color, bold and other formatting in
Mac "TEXT" files. If those were brought over to Windows as .txt files, you'd
lose all the formatting, I'm sure.
--
Paul Berkowitz
> From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:43:22 -0700
> To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Dot files
>
> While Apple has (mostly successfully) attempted to deprecate the usage of
> resources in files since OS X, many Classic programs use resources in ways
> that are critical to the functionality of the document. Styled TextEdit files
> are an easy example of this. The formatting and coloring is held as resource
> fork information. So is custom frame data in QuarkXPress 4 files.
>
> Try creating a formatted file in TextEdit in OS 9 or earlier, and put it
> through the Windows-format transfer process.
>
> Rick Gordon
>
> ------------------
>
> On 6/19/06 at 12:02 PM -0400, Gary (Lists) wrote in a message entitled
> "Re: Dot files":
>
>> "Matt Deatherage" wrote:
>>
>>> On 6/19/06 at 1:53 AM, Gary (Lists) <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nothing is lost of "the file" as most humans conceive it -- only of
>>>> its context and attributes in the Mac Finder environment. There is
>>>> nothing wrong, harmful, destructive or otherwise problematic with
>>>> ditching that data if it is not needed or desired.
>>>
>>> This is, for all the reasons in caps and *asterisks* in the original
>>> message,
>>> exactly untrue.
>>
>> Too cryptic for me. I'll pass.
>>
>>
>> But, at least we can all rest assured that when moving a file from a Mac to
>> Windows, one can ditch any (all) "dot files" that mean nothing to the
>> Windows environment -- i.e., all of them.
>>
>> This is precisely what I thought originally, and that's what your write-up
>> confirms.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> --
>> Gary
>
> --
>
> ___________________________________________________
>
> RICK GORDON
> EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING
> ___________________________________________________
>
> WWW: http://www.shelterpub.com
> _______________________________________________
> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
> Applescript-users mailing list (email@hidden)
> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
>
> This email sent to email@hidden
>
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Applescript-users mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden