1 Nov
2012
1 Nov
'12
6:20 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:52 AM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
On Nov 1, 2012, at 3:34, Dave McGuire <mcguire at
neurotica.com> wrote:
What I think Dave is talking about is changing the
association of text files so they're not opened with
TeachText/SimpleText by default. I don't remember
exactly how that's done, but there's a third-party utility
for that as well; I need to boot up my old 7300 which
was my personal machine in the '90s, because it has a
lot of these guys installed.
One of the later versions of MacOS (8 or 9) introduced a control panel like
the file type association screen in Windows, that let you explicitly set
what program opens what type of file, along with MIME types.
There's also Internet Config, which sets MIME type associations, but I
think it might do default handlers as well.
Classic MacOS had two pieces of metadata for every file - the file type and
file creator. File type does what it sounds like, whereas the file creator
tells the OS what application created it, and which one should open it. So
it would be possible to have .C and .H files created with Metrowerks open
with Metrowerks, and .C and .H files created with BBEdit open with BBEdit,
even though they are the same type of file, and you could explicitly open
them from within BBEdit or Metrowerks.