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: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 00:40:32 -0400
On Saturday, September 8, 2001, at 06:32 PM, Peter Ammon wrote:
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2) De-emphasize the importance of file name extensions; they're an
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option for an application, but not a recommendation.
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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.
Fetch, Mail are just two examples.. then lets look at the raft of
NON UI stuff
cp
ncftp/ftp/ftpd
apache
mv
scp, ssh
perl
virtually ALL of the raft of unix and open source utilities would
be subjected to this.
at that very point, you're back to OS 9 as far as
compatibility/portability goes.