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> 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. Doesn't it just use the extension if the metadata isn't there? Didn't OS 9 do that already? It sure seemed to. What's new is "hide the extension", and that seems to be a Windows stupidity. What *I* wish they'd do is make it easier to get to the metadata from the UNIX side. I can grab the resource fork by opening ".../rsrc", but there doesn't seem to be an equivalent mechanism to get to the metadata. Right now I'm working on getting rsync to work properly on Mac OS. AUGH. [insert flame about rsyncx and how people who extend a protocol in incompatible ways should have the common decency to make it either fall back to a safe mode when dealing with the original implementation or fail, *NOT* transfer the same file three times for the three separate chunks of file data and therefore end up with *only* the resource fork at the destination *and* of course the match fails on the next sync so you go through the same chinese fire drill again] The Jaguar Finder is obviously a work in progress. Unfortunately the Panther Finder looks to be a work in regress. Holy Mother of Xerox, that thing's an obvious dropping from the "I'm going to make your life suck" fairy.There's stuff above here
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