Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 23:17:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Evan Dickinson <evand AT wsunix DOT wsu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: A few FS notions
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On Fri, 2 May 1997, Mr M S Aitchison wrote:

[snip]

> 4. Macs might say the creator was some mac version of Word Perfect; we are
>    in DOS - is it good enough to claim the creator was a PC Word Perfect?
>    (Remember that Mac MS Works file formats in some versions are definately
>    different to PC ones).

If the filesystem is good enough to do that, I think it should be because
the user made it so.  I have no problem with a mapping where the user
would tell the computer "Open Mac Word Perfect files with c:\wp51\wp.exe". 
But imagine the nightmare of trying to do this automatically.  That, in my
opinion, would be too unreliable to work.