In article <3D3### [at] chromatixdemoncouk> , Jonathan Morton 
<chr### [at] chromatixdemoncouk>  wrote:

>> 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.

indeed, it happens when files are transferred using Unix command-line tools.
Files being transferred via the Finder should be fine.  Of course, Apple has
promised that this will be fixed in future versions of Mac OS X, and as you
may have noticed, POV-Ray 3.5 for Mac OS is not supported on the versions of
Mac OS X we are talking about here ;-)

    Thorsten

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