"File types"

[Don]

Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>>> 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.

Ah, OK.  So the OS already has provisions to handle it and
hides those details from the user.  I.e. it does the things
I was insinuating the user would have to do, manually.