NetCDF UTI's on Mac OS X

[Johan Kool]

Hello Sean and Russ (and any others reading this),

Thank you for your responses.

>>  <key>UTTypeIdentifier</key>
>>  <string>edu.ucar.unidata.netcdf. andi </string>
>
> I assume those are stray spaces?

Indeed. Of course I only noticed them seconds after hitting Send.

> Here there will be a problem.  There are now 2 UTIs
> (edu.ucar.unidata.netcdf.andi and edu.ucar.unidata.netcdf) that both
> claim the extensions .cdf and .nc.  One will win out.

That's an unfortunate fact of life. I haven't checked, nor yet read  
the whole thread you referenced, but if Apple implemented this right  
it should give precedence to edu.ucar.unidata.netcdf over  
edu.ucar.unidata.netcdf.andi since the latter conforms to the  
former.  In other words a netcdf.andi is a netcdf, but a netcdf is  
not a netcdf.andi.

> Like you, I don't know of any MIME types already in use for that.

Oh well... I suppose that application/x-netcdf-andi is a good  
candidate, but I'll assume that most often it comes as application/x- 
netcdf.

> Once your proposal is finalised, you should submit a bug to Apple
> requesting they add it to the OS's list of known UTIs.

That sounds like a good idea. I will do that. I'll post here once  
more before I do that.

Thanks,

Johan


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