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jt august wrote:
>In article <1hzuoa3.11urs99yzyyxnN%see_signature@mac.com.invalid>,
> see_signature@mac.com.invalid (Jon) wrote:
>
>> jt august wrote:
>>
>> > In the classic OS (1.0 to 9.2), back in the daze of System 6.0.5 and
>> > System 7, files had a Type and Creator attribute that was heads and
>> > tails over the .SFX suffix of Windows. When Apple went to the Unix
>> > based OS X, they abandonned this very nice set-up. My question is why?
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/reviews/2q00/macos-qna/macos-x-qa-2.html
>> http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10-4.ars/11
>
>The first article was very technical and confusing. The second article
>describes a new typing structure, but says that this only applies to
>some parts of the OS, and that .suffixes are still required for saved
>datas.
>
>Neither article explains why Apple chose to move away from TYPE and
>CRTR. And googling has yet to produce an explanation as to why?
Reading the first article sited there is a paragraph that says:
The situation for plain files is somewhat less perfect. There are only two
popular methods for representing concrete types: HFS/HFS+ type/creator
codes and filename extensions. Mac OS X supports both, but Apple 'strongly
encourages developers to use file extensions as alternative means for
identifying document types.' Apple's reasoning is that the Internet, the new
'lowest common denominator' of interoperability, does not support
HFS-style attributes and forks; it deals only in flat files. Where the
overwhelming majority of 'flat file' volume formats (i.e. Windows/FAT,
Unix/UFS) failed to change Apple's thinking, the pervasive connectivity of the
multi-million-node Internet has succeeded.
That sure sounds like an explanation as to why.
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