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- From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: hfs.FST?
- Message-ID: <71412@apple.Apple.COM>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 00:37:14 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.161646.19380@yang.earlham.edu>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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- In article <1992Aug18.161646.19380@yang.earlham.edu> deviant@yang.earlham.edu writes:
- >[...]
- >Is there any way for GS/OS to recognize the file types of mac documents
- >and applications? I'm talking some way for these files to be recognized
- >in the same way other files are recognized. No more unknown filetype when
- >you use Info. And if that was recognizable, then there could be icons
- >assigned to mac files/apps, and not by filename.
- >
- >Is there any way to have this done?
-
- Finder 6.0 can match an icon (and "kind" string) to a Macintosh filetype
- and/or creator type.
-
- If you create an application with an rBundle database of the Macintosh
- filetypes you care about and then launch the app, the Finder will copy
- the rBundle stuff into the Desktop database.
-
- (If you make a file that isn't an application, then Get Info on it to
- make the Finder notice the rBundle information.)
- --
- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems
- Apple II System Software Engineer | P.O. Box 875
- Internet:dlyons@apple.com | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875
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- My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
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