"File types"

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > 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.)?

I haven't looked into this because my Macs all use HFS+, so I don't know how
Mac OS X emulates resource forks on a UFS filesystem (perhaps Zane or Doc do).

However, when storing Mac files on, say, a FAT volume, a hidden folder is
made to hold the additional data in the resource fork. This includes
type/creator information.

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