Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines
Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines
- Subject: Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 22:33:52 -0700
On Friday, September 7, 2001, at 04:15 PM, Karl Goiser wrote:
The only possible reason for file name extensions is to pander to the
pc market and its 8.3 legacy.
...and the UNIX world, with its N.N(xN!) "legacy", and every other
filesystem in the world that doesn't happen to support the Mac's extra
64 bits of file metadata that bugger any attempt to transfer files to
any system but Macintosh.
Look, like it or not, the Mac isn't a standalone machine anymore. If
every other system out there could be persuaded to (say) take all files
with an XML preface that kept whatever metadata you like, then we
wouldn't have a problem.
-jcr
"The problem with trying to child-proof the world, is that it makes
people neglect the far more important task of world-proofing the
child." -- Hugh Daniel