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Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines
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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

[Objc retain];


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