answer file of type ... ?

[kee nethery]

you are truly a goddess! thanks.

To the runrev powers that be, in the docs,

1. when the search is "answer file", please have "answer file with  
type command" appear in the search results
2. in the "answer file" entry, please include the notation that this  
format is being depreciated and that "answer file with type command"  
is recommended for new code.
3. in the "answer file with type command" add Jacgue's note:  
Regarding discovery of Mac file types, another way to find out what  
these are is to get the "detailed files" of a folder that contains a  
file whose type you want to know. (See the "files" entry in the  
docs.) The last item of each line in the list will be the Mac creator  
and type codes, provided you are on a Mac when you do it.

Kee


On Mar 17, 2007, at 10:25 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> kee nethery wrote:
>
>> I found a format that works on Mac OS X.
>> answer file "select the .ics file" with type "iCal file|ics"
>> that is "iCal file" then a pipe "|" then the file suffix without  
>> the dot "ics"
>> "iCal file" can be seen as the "Kind" of file in the Mac OS X  
>> finder window with the files in a list. The file suffix is visible  
>> as part of the file name. The example I pulled this from had a  
>> file type as the third element "iCal file|ics|RCSK" where "RCSK"  
>> would be the Finder File Type but this appears to be optional.
>> This is not an example displayed in the "answer file command" docs.
>
> It has its own entry listed under "answer file with type". The  
> entry is also listed as a "see also" under the older "answer file"  
> command entry. The new format was introduced in Rev 2.6 and will  
> work cross-platform. If  you use the older "answer file" syntax,  
> you need to branch the "answer" command depending on platform. The  
> newer entry works with the same command everywhere.
>
> An example of the newer syntax is:
>
> answer files "Select images:" with type "JPEG Images|jpg|JPEG"
>
> The types you use should be a return-delimited list of values of  
> the form "tag|extensions|filetypes". This lets you list Windows  
> extensions in the second piped item and Mac file types in the last  
> one. If you omit the last string (which you say works okay) then  
> I'm guessing the command may only look at file name extensions and  
> may not include any files of the correct type that don't have  
> extensions in their names. I haven't tested that though.
>
> Regarding discovery of Mac file types, another way to find out what  
> these are is to get the "detailed files" of a folder that contains  
> a file whose type you want to know. (See the "files" entry in the  
> docs.) The last item of each line in the list will be the Mac  
> creator and type codes, provided you are on a Mac when you do it.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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