You might try 'ttro' - this is the type used by SimpleText (nee TeachText) to indicate a 'read-only' text file - those are the files that look like folded-up newspapers. Seems appropriate for the sources file. StuffIt shouldn't touch it, but it means that most text editors won't open it either, and it will display an error dialog upon opening (>32 K - the limit for SimpleText).
Ideally, the entire Squeak suite on Mac should follow the rules, including setting up app/doc icons, bundles, and file refs, so that images will naturally open the VM, appropriate document descriptions show up in Get Info, etc. It's rather un-Macish to be so generic.
If you'd like some help with this, I can certainly assist. I've shipped many commercial Mac applications, and have this sort of thing down. All you'll really have to do is include some resources and set the "bundle" bit in the application.
Hi, Of course, things would work better if we'd change the file types on the .sources and .changes files to something other than 'TEXT' in terms of unexpanding them. Does this break anything else in the system?
So, does someone have a good idea for the type to use? I tried a search on apple.com and wasn't sucessful beyond the table in http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/Toolbox/Toolbox-447.html. There seems to be a product called TCDB at http://tcdp.tripod.com. Apple, according to http://devworld.apple.com/dev/cftype/ doesn't register the types any more.
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