More on Mac File types

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Fri Feb 4 23:14:14 UTC 2000



Duane Maxwell wrote:

> Well, 'R*ch' may indeed open BBEdit when clicking the document, but then
> BBEdit may look at the type, notice it's not 'TEXT' or some other format it
> understands, then ignore it and/or present an error dialog.  This is
> typically the behavior of a Mac application which has been force-fed a
> document it doesn't understand.  You should check to see what BBEdit does
> in this case.

It opens it as a text file. BBEdit opens  any file as long as it contain data.
So does
Tex-Edit when the document is dropped on it.

>
>
> -- Duane
>
> >Duane T Williams <duane at cmu.edu> wrote:
> >> At 11:59 AM -0500 2/4/2000, Bruce ONeel wrote:
> >> >  Since John suggests that we should view the .changes et al files as
> >> >databases, what is the mac type for databases?
> >>
> >> There is no standard file type for databases on the Mac.  The type and
> >> creator fields are whatever the programmer wants them to be for a
> >> particular program.  They tie a program's files together, but do not
> >> necessarily relate the files of separate programs.  For example, the
> >> ClarisWorks 5.0 database type is CWDB and the FileMaker Pro 4.0 database
> >> type is FMP3.
> >
> >Hmm, ok, no standard mac database type.  How about for the .changes
> >et al on on the mac we set the TYPE to STdb and leave the creator at
> >R*ch in the ftp bundles?  That way bbedit or what ever will open them
> >but stuffit won't translate.
> >
> >Thoughts?
> >
> >cheers
> >
> >bruce

Karl






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