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 23:55:20 -0700
On Friday, September 7, 2001, at 05:05 PM, Mark Munz wrote:
2. Filenames are the users domain. They, and only they, determine if it
has
a file extension and then only for readability. While a possible
extension
may be used as an "alternative" method to determine it a file's type --
Creator/Type metadata remains the primary method for this.
No way. Not until the finder makes it just as easy to change type and
creator as it is for me to stick a ".tiff" on a file when I know what
it's supposed to be.
-jcr
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