Ned,

> Going a bit further, we see that MultiByteBinaryOrTextStream is much too 
> familiar with its clients:
> 
> open: fileName forWrite: writeMode
> 
> 	| result |
> 	result _ super open: fileName forWrite: writeMode.
> 	result ifNotNil: [
> 		converter ifNil: [
> 			self localName = (FileDirectory localNameFor: SmalltalkImage current 
> sourcesName) ifTrue: [
> 				converter _ MacRomanTextConverter new
> 			] ifFalse: [
> 				converter _ UTF8TextConverter new.
> 			].
> 		].
> 		self detectLineEndConvention.
> 	].
> 	^result.
> 
> 
> I *really* don't think that the stream class should be guessing what its uses 
> are. Is there a good reason for doing this?

  It is a tentative hack until we update the .sources file.  We could
move this check to other places if you want.

-- Yoshiki