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: Peter Ammon <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 01:11:20 -0400
On Sunday, September 9, 2001, at 12:40 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:
On Saturday, September 8, 2001, at 06:32 PM, Peter Ammon wrote:
2) De-emphasize the importance of file name extensions; they're an
option for an application, but not a recommendation.
3) Most importantly: provide an API to map type/creator codes to
filename extensions, and use that API in applications such as Mail or
Fetch that would potentially transfer files to a machine that relies on
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.
If you know how to use those the command line utilities, you can
probably deal with filename extensions on your own.
-Peter