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Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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lugnet.cad.dev.mac
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Fri, 6 Dec 2002 02:23:57 GMT
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In article <H6nrvs.Jpo@lugnet.com>,
"James Reynolds" <james@scl.utah.edu> wrote:
> This is more of an issue with POV-Ray. It has everything to do with
> Macintosh
> Meta data. l3p creates files with no meta data. If you type:
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> /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo -c /path/to/.pov
> /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo -t /path/to/.pov
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> You get:
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> ""
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> Which means l3p is not setting the creator or type stuff. What is really
> going
> on is that POV-Ray will NOT open a file that does not have the type set to
> "TEXT". If you set the creator to "POV3", then double clicking the document
> will actually open it with POV-Ray.
I suspected that POV-Ray was just being difficult, especially when
simply adding (I didn't know if it was adding or changing the file type)
the text file type.
> Lars would have to add code that changes the meta data. But I think we
> should
> bug POV-Ray to change their app to read files with no type or creator data.
Actually, that makes sense. But do you think that they are doing the
"text check" to make certain that POV-Ray exists gracefully wneh it
bumps into a file it cannot handle?
I guess I could create a script that adds the text file type and then
send the file to POV-Ray.
I find it very annoying that Apple is eliminating the whole file type
creator thing. It worked so well (much better the extensions). I am glad
that all of the applications that I have purchased still add type and
creator info to the file.
I will e-mail the POV-Ray team with a request.
Thanks,
Chris
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> --
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> Thanks:
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> James Reynolds
> http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jer29950
> james@scl.utah.edu
> james.e.reynolds@m.cc.utah.edu
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| (...) I wondered that too. I would think that it wouldn't matter. If it tried to open a binary file, I don't think it would be any worse than openning a SimpleText or some other "TEXT" file. POV-Ray still has to check the file for proper POV-Ray (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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| This is more of an issue with POV-Ray. It has everything to do with Macintosh Meta data. l3p creates files with no meta data. If you type: /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo -c /path/to/.pov /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo -t /path/to/.pov You get: "" Which (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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