Re: Mac OS X Finder and changing extensions

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From: Michael G Schwern
Subject: Re: Mac OS X Finder and changing extensions
Date: 13:01 on 02 Sep 2003

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:39:46AM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
> Of course, if Avie hadn't had his NeXTy way with things, the Mac 
> might just use metadata that wasn't part of the file name for file 
> typing, and something this braindead would never happen. Even then 
> people would complain that everyone else uses file extensions so the 
> Mac should too. Bah.

IMHO this is one of OS X's Great Leaps Backward from MacOS Classic. :(


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Re: Mac OS X Finder and changing extensions Paul Mison 11:39 on 02 Sep 2003
- Michael G Schwern 13:01 on 02 Sep 2003
- peter (Peter da Silva) 15:18 on 02 Sep 2003
  - Chris Nandor 15:31 on 02 Sep 2003
    - too deep to show
peter (Peter da Silva) 18:30 on 02 Sep 2003

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