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: Marco Scheurer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 17:08:26 +0200
On Saturday, September 8, 2001, at 02:53 PM, Angela Brett wrote:
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My first reaction is (mainly) a thumbs-up. I don't like filename
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extensions to be a necessity, it seems rather archaic for an OS to need
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to use a file's name to figure out what kind of file it is.
There is also the 'file' command which does a decent job on well known
file formats, but of course does not know about every file formats,
especially not proprietary ones... (man file for more info).
Marco Scheurer
Sen:te, Lausanne, Switzerland
http://www.sente.ch