Re: *.mid vs *.midi

[Michael David Crawford]

Karl Hammar wrote:
> I consider it a bug that programs are picky about file extensions.

There was a time when the Mac OS didn't care about file extensions.  The 
filesystem had a type and a "creator code" in the filesystem metadata, 
hidden from the user.  The user had complete control over the entire 
filename.

A database was used to store the association between creator codes and 
applications, so that double-clicking a document would open it in the 
right application.

But when Apple bought NeXT from Steve Jobs, the Cocoa framework that 
became Mac OS X knew nothing of types and creator codes.  Now the Mac is 
borked in the same way windows is.

Michael David Crawford
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