Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl files creator code

[Jerry Stratton <jerry@acusd.edu>]

At 11:43 AM -0700 on 7/30/98, you wrote: 

>At 09:30 -0700 98/07/30, Jerry Stratton wrote:
>I'm not even going to be readily convinced that output files are files that
>this App (MacPerl) doesn't use... perl reads input and creates output.
>That _is_ what it does. :-)

Well, if you use "creates output" as part of your definition of "uses", then I'll stand by my statement: it is not uncommon for applications to create output with a different creator.

>However, by my first understanding of the discussion, i.e. the context
>within which I made the statement, it is very unusual for Apps to write
>their documents with a different creator ID.  For example, everything in my
>Eudora Folder is CS0m.  (Except the log files and I don't know why not).

Go ahead and save this e-mail message. Unless you have specifically told Eudora to do otherwise, it will save it as a SimpleText file.

Why not the log files? Because they were meant to be read, and Eudora's designers decided that Eudora was not the best application to display a log file to the human being on the other end.

>But even talking output files (not scripts), forcing one creator type seems
>unflexible.  So I need to ask, if it matters to you, why not just use
>MacPerl::SetFileInfo to get exactly what you want every time?

Because I don't write everything that I use?

Technically, it *currently* forces one creator type. I'd like it (and it looks like at least one other person mentioned this) to let *me* choose which creator type gets forced. MacPerl doesn't care about creator type when you specify a file as an input file; the only point where creator type matters is when you don't want MacPerl to use it.

What is the benefit of leaving MacPerl as the owner of output files?

Jerry

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