POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.macintosh: POV 3.5 Won't open Unix files?: Re: POV 3.5 Won't open Unix files?

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.macintosh : POV 3.5 Won't open Unix files? : Re: POV 3.5 Won't open Unix files?		Server Time 18 May 2024 07:28:27 EDT (-0400)

From: Jonathan Morton
Date: 16 Jul 2002 23:56:12
Message: <3D34DC53.7040904@chromatix.demon.co.uk>

>>So it appears that POV-Ray 3.5 is refusing to open files that are not
>>specifically listed as TEXT, which will be most files acquired from
>>non-Mac sources.
> 
> No, all files should be properly receive file and creator codes just as they
> did for the past 18 years on System 1 to Mac OS 9.2.2.  If they don't, Apple
> has still not fixed this ancient Mac OS X bug :-(

I can confirm this.  On a .pov created on Windows and transferred using 
ncftp in the terminal window, the file received a completely bogus 
(blank?) filetype and creator.  After adjusting it to TEXT type, it 
opened fine.

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