From: Michael J. Hußmann (michael_at_michael-hussmann.de)
Date: Sun Feb 20 2005 - 13:04:28 PST
Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca) wrote:
> They are moving to a Unix model.
> Unix doesn't care about types and creators.
Thankfully, Mac OS X still isn't Unix -- that's why I'm still using a
Mac. The Unix features already included in Mac OS X (except memory
protection and preemptive multitasking which every modern OS supports)
are bad enough.
Anyway, one can support type and creator codes even with Mac OS X's Unix
underpinnings -- provided one wants to. Note that the problem with Newton
packages being mistaken for application packages only arises because
extensions are insufficient for properly differentiating different types
of files.
- Michael
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