[thelist] search and replace on filenames

At 04:29 PM 4/4/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Steve Maxey wrote on 4/4/00 4:00 PM:
> >> as for the Mac, you can AppleScript that... of course, you could
> >> script it on windows as well, but there are AppleScripts out there to
> >> do it for you...
> >
> > Really? I'd think he'd be stymied a bit by the fact that Mac filenames
> > don't HAVE extensions.
>
>???
>Mac filenames *do* have extensions. Many programs will automatically add
>extensions to the file names (such as Photoshop - .psd or what have you, and
>Dreamweaver - .html, unless you disable this feature). <...>. The only way a
>file doesn't have a visible extension is if the file was deliberately saved
>without one.
>
>Marlene

Last time I installed Pshop on a Mac (5.0), the default was to save files 
without extensions added. You had to deliberately go into the preferences 
and turn this on. Same with Microsoft Office files on the Mac. And unless 
Mac users are working on the Web or regularly trading files with Windows 
users, the normal behavior is to work without them, since a file 
transferred from one Mac to another "knows" what application to use.

This may be changing now, due to increased Internet usage. But until 
recently, Mac users (especially from the pre-Windows95 era), grateful they 
didn't have to memorize three-letter abbreviations for the applications 
they used, generally abjured them--at least in my experience.