Re: What about a glob standard method in Ada.Command_Line ?

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:15:56 +0200, (see below)  
<yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> a écrit:
>> 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.
I do not own a Mac, so may be indeed I was wrong somewhere. But I use to  
read about the Mac system and philosophy to try to figure if there is or  
not a technical solution to compile Mac applications from Windows. So I  
came to this topic, and really I read something about it, stating  
something changed there when switching from the ancient Mac 0S up to 9, to  
the new Mac OS X (completely different system in the core, while mostly  
compatible in many topics). And I am sure I have read complaints about the  
file extension à la Windows vs  the file type tag. May be both are still  
coexisting and there is just less focus on the type tag so fans of the  
original Mac way was disappointed ? (as I said, I do not own a Mac, so  
cannot figure this my self)

Any way, thanks for the possible error you noticed.

> See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Type_Identifier>.
Oh s**t, wikipedia again. Fed-up, sorry, will try to peak another source,  
sure there must be another one.


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