Hi,
  The bit of the problem that I'm trying to solve is the "my file was 
munged when I downloaded it and stuffit expander on a non mac
platform was too helpful."  I'll guess that this could be solved by
making the file types not TEXT in the upload bundles.  I wonder
if the C runtime library isn't setting the file types for the sources and
changes files.  I poked a bit yesterday and it seems that the 
#setMacFileNamed:type:creator: is used for images, but I may have 
missed its use for the images or changes files.  Thanks.

cheers

bruce

Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
> #setMacFileNamed:type:creator: is used in four places within the image
> to set the file type info for Macs. Whilst it may be perfectly
> reasonable, even essential, to do this on a Mac, it is very poor
> practise to do something so unportably at such a high level.
> It's also done in the image writing primitive code and every time a file
> is opened the Mac will set the type to TEXT/R*ch.
> 
> I don't think there would be any problem with reading the
> sources/changes if they were some other type (but who knows? Macs do
> some funny things) however the code for condensing the files would have
> to change or they would become TEXT/R*ch as a side effect.
> 
> ti