File types

Tony van der Hoff oslib at mk-net.demon.co.uk
Sat Sep 27 14:13:41 BST 2003


On 27 Sep 2003, in message <59997f384c.tom at loxley.compton.nu>,
Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> Do we have a policy on what file types qualify for named constants
> in the OSFile module?
> 
Not to my knowledge.

> Only we had a request on the users list to add &FAE (toolbox resource
> file) and I was wondering where best to but it. It is in the "Acorn" part
> of the file type range so I guess it could go in OSFile, or alternatively
> perhaps in the Toolbox file?
> 

I don't feel strongly about it, but I guess OSFile is the right place;
any operation to do with filetypes will probably require OSFile.h, but not
necessarily Toolbox.h.

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