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: "Erik M. Buck" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 18:46:59 -0500
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3) Most importantly: provide an API to map type/creator codes to
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filename extensions, and use that API in applications such as Mail or
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Fetch that would potentially transfer files to a machine that relies on
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filename extensions.
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The information to map type/creator codes to extensions does not always
exist, and may be ambiguous. There in no single place where such a mapping
could occur anyway since every application may be dealing with a non-HFS
file system.
The most common way to access files on a non-HFS file system is via the
finder. The second most common way would be via open and save dialogs. I
get the impression that MacOS 9 users never mount network drives, use NFS,
use transparent ftp, have their home account on a server, etc.