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.
Ideas?
cheers
bruce
Doug Way dway@mat.net wrote:
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Duane Maxwell wrote:
Perhaps SqC will someday see fit to set the file types of these files to something a little less likely to provoke's UnStuffIt's friskiness.
Assuming this works, maybe our good friend (and download curator) Bruce O'Neel might be able to do this? (Does setting the file type to something other than 'TEXT' actually prevent this problem?) Bruce? :-}
Of course, some sort of automatic Squeak-based check would be even better (as Les suggested), but at least short-term, fixing the file type in the Mac download would be easy.
Ultimately, I think this is mostly Squeak's problem, and we should do something about it one way or the other... downloading & starting Squeak should be a worry-free operation. (People will download Squeak before they ever sign up for this list, or check the Swiki, so the fix needs to be at the source...)
- Doug Way dway@mat.net