Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
In article , Wolf K
wrote:
Many files have such type-identifiers included. E.g., a JPG file
begins with JFIF, a WordPerfect file includes WPC in the first line,
an MS .doc includes "Microsoft Word Document" in plain text in the
header, and so on. Some image viewers will even tell you that the
extension doesn't match the file type, if that happens to be the case.
Then you've put the metadata inside the file, which is even worse. It
should be part of the file system.
If by "file system" you mean how an OS identifies filetype etc, no way.
yes way.
As Mayayana reminds us, that way lies a right mess when people exchange
files. And people want to exchange files.
except, it doesn't.
The internet works because the necessary data for routing the data
packets are inside the data packet, not external. That principle should
apply to all forms of data. Including programs, but that's a another issue.
mime headers say otherwise.
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