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From: jwwalker@usceast.UUCP (Jim Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How do I get creator strings assigned to me?
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Date: 14 Sep 90 18:31:42 GMT
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In article <33880@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>It's always seemed to me that there must be a better way to get
>file types and resource types than asking Apple.
>
>How about some sort of algorithmic method to generate them?
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>An alternative approach, which assumes that people who need
>to define types should have AppleLink accounts, would assign
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>					Tim Smith

Please don't make that assumption!  I have registered creator types for two
freeware programs, and I assuredly don't have an Applelink account.

An advantage of the current approach is that file types and creators can
often be mnemonic.  Apple's original idea, of course, had been that users
would never see these codes, but now it isn't necessarily so.
-- 

   Jim Walker  jwwalker@cs.scarolina.edu  76367.2271@compuserve.com