Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl files creator code

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 09:30 -0700 98/07/30, Jerry Stratton wrote:
> At 7:50 AM -0600 on 7/30/98, you wrote:
>
> >>It's a little unusual, though, for a Mac app to set some other app's
> >>creator ID into the files it creates.

>
> Actually, it isn't unusual at all. It's very common for Apps that create
>files that they don't use to give those files other creator IDs. Eudora
>does it; Netscape does it; rtf2html does it...

But if you read back through this discussion, you will note that I thought
we were talking about saving scripts, not output files, and I doubt anyone
wants to try to convince me that Perl scripts qualify as files that "the
App doesn't use"?

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. :-)

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).

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?

Still willing to be convinced -

Vicki
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