29 Aug
2006
29 Aug
'06
1:54 p.m.
Don wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
That's what happens when you use the filename to store the information
instead of a resource fork or something similar.
Peace... Sridhar
On 8/29/2006 at 12:28 PM Don wrote:
Exactly. I have .DAT files that 3 different applications want
to claim as their own. About the only "file type" that I
have NOT had problems with is ".dgy" :> I.e. type needs to be finer grained than silly N
*character*
file "extensions"... *everyone* wants to be "DOC", or some
other pronounceable extension. So, the file types lose their
value (e.g., on my W2K box, Matlab and Mathematica both want
to use .m -- so, .m files are meaningless to me since I can't
recall FROM THE NAME OF THE FILE which application needs to
be opened to process the file). MacOS *seems* to have had the
right idea (though I have never used it "seriously" to know
for sure).
...and you might add that there are no rules for "extensions". In front
of me, I've got a disk with .FW and .PCL files. And no--they don't have
anything to do with Frameworks or HP. Neither is listed in Filext.com.