Files function or Tiger bug?

Howard Bornstein howard.bornstein at gmail.com
Sat Jul 30 12:48:09 EDT 2005


On 7/30/05, Eric Chatonet <eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Mac OS X issue (Tiger)
> When working on the "Getting the type code of a file under OSX"
> thread, I noticed that the long files function return an empty
> filetype for TextEdit files (raw text or RTF).
> FileBuddy reports correctly, Rev not.
> Could you confirm?
> 
> Best Regards from Paris,
> 
> Eric Chatonet.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> So Smart Software

Hi Eric,

I had no problem here with regards to the long files function
correctly identifying text files. By raw text I assume you mean a type
code of TEXT, right? Long files correctly finds this. When I checked a
number of .rtf files created by TextEdit, they came up blank because,
apparently, TextEdit only uses the file extension to specify a .rtf
file and the long files correctly reports the type as empty (the long
description ends with a comma).

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Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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