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> To some degree, yes. But it worked quite a bit differently (for example, > it never tried to enforce extensions on a given file). That's the Taint of the Beast of Redmond. > Also, another way you can change the extension with Hide Extension on is in > the Get Info window of a file. It's buggy and sometimes doesn't work > right, though. Hide Extension is one of those things I always turn off when I find it on. Along with things like "Automatically run helper application after downloading" and other wide open security holes. > >What *I* wish they'd do is make it easier to get to the metadata from the > >UNIX side. [...] > The Mac-Carbon distribution (port of the MacPerl Mac:: extensions) That's jumping from the frying pan into the blast furnace. My mind doesn't work the way Larry Wall's does, so Perl isn't a nifty toolkit for me, it's the Valley of the Shadow of Death. > And, of course, there are the included programs in the Developer Tools, > GetFileInfo and SetFile (which the p[sg]etfinfo programs are modeled after). Guess I'll grovel around in there, do they call anything GCC isn't capable of getting me into? > It seems like it at first glance, but it also seems like you can disable > most of the crap, like the sidebar, to make it function pretty much like > how you might want it. Hopefully. I *like* the toolbar, I like having a common user interface feature like that in most programs (and I wish it was *all* programs). It looks like it's gone for good, alas. God I wish they'd fix iTunes and a couple of other programs to use the normal GUI, though, so I could theme the Metal out of them. And so iTunes would "jump up and down like a Jack Russel Terrier" instead of popping up Windows-style and stealing the focus from the app I was REALLY working on. METAL DELENDA EST.There's stuff above here
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