netatalk, hooboy, that brings back memories. Classic MacOS X stored the type and creator codes in the resource fork. Early versions of MacOS X discouraged this

netatalk, hooboy, that brings back memories. Classic MacOS X stored the type and creator codes in the resource fork. Early versions of MacOS X discouraged this, but preserved and respected the codes if they were present. 10.6 Snow Leopard killed them off with the UTI (an unfortunate acronym) framework. http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/09/22/inside-snow-leopards-uti-apple-fixes-the-creator-code/ http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/09/22/inside-snow-leopard...