On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:48 am, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Rhodri James wrote: >> Even then there was RiscOS, which divorced file names from file types >> entirely. > > As did classic MacOS.
Classic MacOS associated two such pieces of metadata with each file: the creator and type. Regardless of the optional file type extension, you could associate different creators with different files of the same type: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creator_code > I believe MacOSX also has the ability to store a file type > as metadata, but it doesn't seem to be used much. They are still supported (-ish) by OS X, but have been superseded by Uniform Type Identifiers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Type_Identifier -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
