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Subject: Re: What about a glob standard method in Ada.Command_Line ?
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On 25/08/2010 09:24, in article op.vhziy8yyxmjfy8@garhos, "Yannick Duch�ne
(Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Mac OS used to have a good technique to tag files types and applications
> to be used to open it, via meta-data... unfortunately, it drop it with OS
> X to follow DOS/Windows convention (many users was disappointed, but Apple
> did not care).

This is false (or so misleading as to be false FAPP). The DOS/Windows
convention is only one of several techniques MacOS X supports for file-type
association.

See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Type_Identifier>.

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Bill Findlay
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