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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 07:29:05 GMT
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> 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 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 formatting.
> I guess I could create a script that adds the text file type and then
> send the file to POV-Ray.
Cool, could you post it when you get it working?
> 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.
It isn't that Apple is getting rid of it, it is that Darwin, the Unix part
of Mac OS X doesn't deal with creator/file types. I do alot with the
terminal, and all the unix tools do the same thing, create files with no
creator/file types. Until Lars customizes it for Mac OS X, L3P pretty much
falls into the catigory of a unix tool.
Apple is really interesting. It is 2 companies really, a bunch of Unix
geeks from NeXT, and the old Apple employees. See this movie "The future of
Mac OS 9", by Keith Stattenfield, former Mac OS 9.x Technical Lead at Apple:
http://homepage.mac.com/stattenf/FutureOfMacOS9/
Mirror:
http://apple.doit.wisc.edu/media/futureofmacos9.mov
James
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| (...) If, IF I get it working. I have no idea what I am doing most of the time, but sometimes get it to work anyway. With OS 9 I could create a drag-and-drop capable scriptlet/applet, but with OS X I cannot figure it out :( (...) It seems that there (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| (...) 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. (...) Actually, that makes sense. But do you think that they are doing the "text (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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