"File types"

[Cameron Kaiser]

> Sadly Apple went with the NeXT way of doing things with Mac OS X.  There
> seems to be very little of the Classic Mac OS in Mac OS X.  While I think
> that getting rid of resource forks is a good thing, was it really necessary
> to drop the file creator attributes?  Very frequently I have files of a
> certain type .JPEG for example, where I want to open certain files of that
> type with one program, and others with another.  With the file creator
> attributes this worked just fine.  With the Microsoft & Mac OS X "one size
> fits all" attitude, only one app will be associated with *ALL* files with
> that extension.

Not on HFS+ filesystems -- I can still pick an individual opener for a
particular file under Get Info, even in 10.4.

I would think even a UFS filesystem could emulate that.

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