On Sunday 30 June 2002 02:17 am, Karl Ramberg wrote:
> Ned Konz wrote:
> > 3) Why should we treat the Macintosh specially when we're not
> > treating (for instance) Windows or Acorn specially?
>
> Well, that's a good question. I ultimatly would like Squeak to
> not care what platform it's on, just do the right thing.
> On a mac a unzipped zip archive show the image and changes as
> generic icons,
> and will not start the vm if double clicked.
> Is this how a unzipped archive behaves on win, linux etc ?

On Windows, file types are determined by file extensions, so unzipped 
files would work the same.

On KDE, file types are determined both by magic numbers/strings and 
extensions, and so would work the same.

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