[OS X TeX] UTI for Textures documents
Jon Guyer
jguyer at his.com
Sat Jun 4 23:20:51 CEST 2005
On Jun 4, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
> Hence this mail: does any programmer here know of some command-line
> instruction for example, that could be used to tell Tiger that files
> with a *TEX Creator string do belong to Textures?
Just yesterday, an Apple engineer posted the following to the
carbon-development list:
> From: Christopher Linn <csl at apple.com>
> Date: June 3, 2005 7:54:11 PM EDT
> To: Rainer Brockerhoff <rainer at brockerhoff.net>, Carbon Dev
> <carbon-dev at lists.apple.com>
> Cc: Subject: Re: Algorithm for "preferred application" changed in
> Tiger?
>
> The creator code does not come in to play when determining a file's
> content type (UTI). The creator code is just a record of what app
> originally wrote the file, not an indicator of the file's content
> type.
I find this so-called "design" inexplicable, but the answer to your
question appears to be "no".
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