Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl files creatore code

[Jerry Stratton <jerry@acusd.edu>]

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.
>
>Unusual is good! BBEdit does it, and it honors the creator code when you Save
>or even Save As over the file...

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...

Jerry

jerry@acusd.edu                                           http://www.acusd.edu/~jerry/
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