"File types"

[Don]

Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>> 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.

Where would you hide the creator attributes?  Or, are you
uggesting a kludge workaround (e.g., change the "extension"
to something unique; build some middleware that consults
a user-maintained table of creator attributes; etc.)?