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- From: johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean)
- Subject: Re: MS-DOS FST
- Reply-To: johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean)
- Organization: Tower Technology, Sydney
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:35:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.223527.9206@fawlty.towers.oz.au>
- References: <47pm7ad.lunatic@netcom.com> <66@generic.UUCP> <71205@apple.Apple.COM>
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- In article <71205@apple.Apple.COM> dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons) writes:
- >I don't have much real-world experience with MS-DOS. I'm interested in
- >your informed opinions on what MS-DOS suffixes (.TXT, etc) should correspond
- >by default to various GS/OS filetype/auxiliary type combinations.
- >
- >Here's one possible list of default translations:
- >
- > suffix ftype auxtype
- > .TXT $04 $0000 text file
- > ::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- > .GIF $C0 $8006 GIF file
- >
- >Reasonable? ($04 is Text and $06 is Binary.)
- >--
- >David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems
-
- Firstly, most of these conversions sound fine:
- Anything that makes sense -> $04 $0000
- Anything that makes sense -> $06 $0000
- everything else -> $00 $0000
-
- You could consider adding an unknown MSDOS filetype,
- and encoding the three letter extension into the auxtype.
- This would of course provide a totally reversable translation.
-
- Is $C0 $8006 now a standard file type for GIFs?
- In what tech note is this documented?
-
- John MacLean.
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