Identifying bundles in MacOS X
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Nov 16 21:49:56 EST 2004
Brion Vibber wrote:
> It's worse than that... the bundle bit _might_ or _might not_ matter,
> since it's not always present, and some extensions are known or not
> or... ugh.
I get the impression that Apple are trying to move away
from reliance on finder info, resource forks, etc.,
so that MacOSX will work on non-HFS file systems.
So the bundle bit is probably regarded as a "legacy"
feature.
--
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg
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