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Old January 8th 18, 11:00 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.mac.apps
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Default Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?

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Fri, 05 Jan 2018
17:29:29 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

Okay, so you can press two keys instead when if using the alt
method on Windows, I have to press a total of four. Alt and the
corresponding keycode representing the ascii character. like ß
(that's alt 225).


it's one key & a modifier, no different than holding shift while
typing 3 for #, or shift and = for +.

your four keys are in sequence and far slower, plus it requires
memorizing numbers for each character, which is absurd.


far slower is a matter of debate, I suppose. Mostly depending on how
fast/slow one types.

For me, I can bring up a simple 'chart' to see all the characters
along with their corresponding codes, so I don't have to memorize
each option+character to do it.


that's also an option, but it's slower.


Perhaps by milliseconds...


mac os x, with unix under the hood, uses c strings, where null
indicates the end of a string. therefore null *can't* be part of a
string.


I'm aware of the differences in the way *nix treats string
terminations vs that of DOS/Windows.

that's because windows has a lot of limitations that don't
exist on other systems.


Those aforementioned limitations predate Windows by several
years. Windows provides backward compatability to a point and
that's why those reserved characters are still present today.
They come from the days of DOS and OS's very similiar to DOS,
but, not being DOS as you know it on the PC platform. Due to
backwards compatability, it's necessary for Windows to follow
certain rules setup long before it existed.


in other words, carrying on the mistakes of the past.


That's one way of looking at it, sure. Another way, as I previously
stated is backwards compatability with hundreds of thousands of older
applications people relied on and didn't want to lose by 'upgrading'
their copy of Windows and/or installing Windows in the first place.


It's not a bug. It's an association issue. For the most part,
Windows associates extensions with the app chosen to open them,
unless it examines the file header when you opt to open it and
chooses the best program based on the file header. .reg is
associated with registry editor, for example.


if the user renames a file causing it to lose its association,
it's a bug. simple as that.


Again, it's not a bug. It's a difference in the way Windows and your
mac treat files. Your macs also do the association thing, but, in a
different way.

on a mac, that doesn't happen.


Not too long ago, transferring files created on a mac to a non mac
system was a pain in the ass because the mac had additional data
concerning the file that wasn't with the file itself. Requiring you
to take additional steps to ensure the file could be transferred
properly through the non mac back to another mac without losing
anything in the process. That to me, is a poor design. Works great
for mac to mac, but, not so good when you leave the world of mac.

A mac stores this information elsewhere as meta data. It's just
not as straight forward as Windows is concerning file
associations.


it's actually very straightforward and was *well* ahead of its
time.


On that we'll agree to disagree.



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