newbie: OS X and answer file ?

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Wed Jun 4 00:06:01 EDT 2003


> >> Probably the engine needs to be updated to look at both extensions
> >> and types for OS X files.
> >
> > Seems to be the best (and most necessary) solution... :-)
>
> I like it.  Maybe this can apply to all files, not just to OS X files.
> On some systems the extension or the type is simply ignored.
>
I think this is already being worked on as it was discussed quite some time
ago. I remember suggesting a combined syntax like:

answer file "Open file:" with filter "*.txt" of type "TEXT"

That way there's no if the platform is .... then ....

Cheers

Monte




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