Subject: Re: msword doc bug
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2000 - 15:56:21 CST
At 1:51 PM -0700 1/19/00, Logan Hall wrote:
>sterwill@abisource.com wrote:
>
>> Perhaps very soon we'll have a Mac port,
> > and I'm not sure what we'll do there. I believe it's common to preserve
>> the extension in the file names when dealing with Microsoft-tainted
>> data on the Macintosh (is this true?).
>>
>
>No its not true as far as i can remember.. being a long time Mac
>user, the only
>times i see extentions hevily used on the mac is when the *user* is microsoft
>tainted and they don't know anybetter. Or the app is badly ported.
The main place where you see extensions on the Mac, is where
there is a good possibility that the user will be taking to the file
to a platform (Wintel or Unix) that requires file extensions for
"typing" the files. This is certainly most evident with files
destined for the web (.html, .jpg, .gif, etc.), though even standard
office files (.doc, .xls) or graphic files being exchanged (.psd,
.ai, etc.).
>On the mac
>Word doesn't recognize extentions, nor do most apps. It goes off of the magic
>number and the type/creater codes to open the files.
>
Right!
LDR
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