On 25 apr 2006, at 22.41, joe at strout dot net wrote:
True, but that's not something a well-behaved Mac app should do
anyway (and your second possibility is apparently relying on a bug
in RB).
I can take a JPEG file and rename it to end in ".xml" far more
easily than I can change the actual MacType, but that doesn't make
it an XML file.
Yes and this is just what you can do with files that is created by
Apple own applications. Example: TextEdit do NOT add an MacType to
the .html or .xml files. The only way to handle this is the
extension, soon we have no files on our Macs that have an MacType.
Files that you grab from the Web have NO MacType, files from your
digital camera have NO MacType
So here you only change the extension to jpg .. and then you have an
none valid file, that NOT would be displayed in the OpenDialog box as
MacType TEXT because there is no MacType.
Best,
- Joe
--
Sven E Olsson
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