Re: [MacPerl-Porters] default type/creator

At 11:33 +0200 2001.10.25, Bart Lateur wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:04:49 +0200, Axel Rose wrote:
>
>>If MacPerl doesn't know anything about a file I create
>>with Net::FTP should MacPerl set type to TEXT?
>>
>>Just thinking about a really unimportant detail ... :)
>
>I've been hunting around a bit, but I can't find exactly what sets the
>default type. Does anybody else know?

GUSI.

This is editable, in theory, in a GU…I resource, which is not currently
supported in the beta, but is supported in 5.2.0r4.  You can change it
there.

>I tend to agree that, when a file is transferred as text, the default
>type may well be text, but when transferred as binary, it should be some
>binary type, definitely not text.

There's no way to handle that in MacPerl itself, that I can think of.  It
has to be in the perl code doing the downloading.

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