{"id":19,"date":"2002-10-03T13:14:54","date_gmt":"2002-10-03T17:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=19"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"mdj_on_internet_config","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/03\/mdj_on_internet_config\/","title":{"rendered":"MDJ on Internet Config"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macjournals.com\">MDJ<\/a> 2002.10.02 includes a great article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinn.echidna.id.au\/Quinn\/Config\/\">Internet Config<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Internet Config already contained a complete and useful mapping of file name extensions to creator types, completely capable of mapping almost any file you&rsquo;d need to send to a Windows machine, and yet Apple&rsquo;s management wouldn&rsquo;t even consider using it instead of forcing file name extension on every program, no matter how grossly inappropriate they may be. You do not need Omni Outliner [sic] documents to end in &ldquo;.ooutline&rdquo; because there is no Windows version to exchange files with. You definitely don&rsquo;t need your AirPort Admin settings saved in &ldquo;.basestation&rdquo; files. Amazingly, Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=107005\">recommends<\/a> with a straight corporate face that you should search for AppleWorks files by searching for files with the extension &ldquo;.cwk&rdquo;, as in &ldquo;ClarisWorks,&rdquo; saying that file type &ldquo;is not an accurate way to search for files,&rdquo; even though that&rsquo;s only true because Apple told programmers to make it that way.&hellip;Or maybe not: since Internet Config so clearly disproves the NeXT notion that file system metadata must be eliminated, Apple may be deliberately deemphasizing the technology.<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDJ 2002.10.02 includes a great article on Internet Config: Internet Config already contained a complete and useful mapping of file name extensions to creator types, completely capable of mapping almost any file you&rsquo;d need to send to a Windows machine, and yet Apple&rsquo;s management wouldn&rsquo;t even consider using it instead of forcing file name extension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}