Re: CAF files
Re: CAF files
- Subject: Re: CAF files
- From: Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 20:10:48 +0200
Le 4 août 2010 à 20:06, B.J. Buchalter a écrit :
>
> On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:02 AM, B.J. Buchalter <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> Is there a standard value defined for the Mac OS Finder File Type for a CAF File?
>>>
>>> Is this documented anywhere?
>>
>> The UTI for CAF files is com.apple.coreaudio-format. You can see the
>> type tags (including OSType and file extension) in "System-Declared
>> Uniform Type Identifiers" here:
>> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Miscellaneous/Reference/UTIRef/Articles/System-DeclaredUniformTypeIdentifiers.html
>
> So, I take it that the 'caff' in the Tag column of the table is meant to indicate the OSType that is used to recognize that UTI?
>
> I guess that it would be worthwhile for the CAF documentation to have the recommended tags for the CAF type as I would have never thought to look at the UTI documentation to find the recommended OSType for the file -- my expectation is that if a File Format has explicit documentation, that the documentation will include all relevant items.
>
> I do note that all the .caf files that Apple ships have no OSType set at all.
>
OS X uses less and less the file type and rely exclusively on the file extension for a lot of stuff.
-- Jean-Daniel
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