Re: *.mid vs *.midi

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 22:55:50 -0700
Michael David Crawford <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

Yes and no.  The underlying OS still knows what the files are:

tsubasa:~/tmp gperciva$ ls foo.mi*
foo.mid         foo.midi
tsubasa:~/tmp gperciva$ file foo.mi*
foo.mid:  Standard MIDI data (format 1) using 3 tracks at 1/384
foo.midi: Standard MIDI data (format 1) using 3 tracks at 1/384
tsubasa:~/tmp gperciva$ mv foo.mid foo.txt
tsubasa:~/tmp gperciva$ file foo.txt 
foo.txt: Standard MIDI data (format 1) using 3 tracks at 1/384
tsubasa:~/tmp gperciva$ 


I can double-click on both foo.mi* files and have Quicktime open
up and play the files.  However, trying to open foo.txt results in
TextEdit popping up.


I actualy consider this *more* broken than Windows.  I mean,
Windows is just stupid.  OSX *isn't* stupid, but it pretends to
be.  I have no clue what the Aqua people were up to.  :(

Cheers,
- Graham