Another newbie Mac Question...

[Richard Gaskin]

Alex Rice wrote:

> On Jan 5, 2004, at 2:26 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> With OS X Apple no longer requires file type assignments, posing a
>> problem
>> for us.  I'm not sure Apple has yet decided what to do about either
>> file
>> types or creator codes for the long term, so I'm not familiar with a
>> workaround for selecting files that rely only on file name extension
>> on OS
>> X.
> 
> OS X supports creator codes, filename extensions, and MIME types. Apps
> are free to use any, or all of them. From what I understand this is
> just the way it will be, not that apple is undecided.
> 
> See bugzilla #605. It's a Rev bug that it's not implemented correctly-
> this aspect of OS X has been unchanged since 10.0 AFAIK.
> 
>> Anyone come across a current Apple tech note on this?
> 
> Not sure if it's "current".
> <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2017.html>

Cool, thanks.  Reading Tuv's note it looks like Apple has come around on
this one at last.

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