Bruce ONeel wrote:

> Hi,
>   Since John suggests that we should view the .changes et al files as
> databases, what is the mac type for databases?  Does someone
> have a handy copy of FMPro or so hanging around and could tell
> us?  This might be a good choice.  I'll try to dig up my copy and check.
>
>   Note for those of you not on macs.  The only affect this has on you is
> that gratituious translations of the .sources and .changes files won't
> happen anymore when you download a .sit or .sea file of mac stuff.
> It will not change your ability to look at the files in a text editor.  The
> files themselves won't change, just the silly mac type.  Think of it this
> way.  On Windows you can rename a file from blah.doc to blah.xsl and
> windows now thinks that your MS Word document is now a MS Excel
> document.  The contents have not changed.
>
>   For those of us on macs you maybe will have to change the type to
> TEXT to look at it in an editor, if you want to do that.  I suspect that
> the TEXT type will be added by the C run time library when .cs and
> .changes files are saved so most of the time you won't have to do
> anything.

The "creator" decides what program it opens in. I changed the types of my
.changes and .source to the same as the image (STim) and everything seams to
work the same.


>
>
>   The summary would be that I would change the mac file type
> of the .changes and the .sources files which I put in the .sea files
> on the ftp site to stop the complaints about line end translations.
> Nothing else would need to change and everyone should be able to
> work as before.
>
> cheers
>
> bruce

Karl