Le jeudi 30 mai 2002, à 12:59 , maslen@... a écrit :

> A colleague is using a new Mac laptop, with OSX, for UNIX 
> programming and
> has created a data file, which appears to be in the form required by an
> application which I built from an FB II source program.  This
> application looks for a TEXT data file, but the UNIX data file does not
> show up in its window of files to be opened. If the cause and 
> solution of
> this problem are simple and well-known, I would appreciate the
> information.  Otherwise, I will go away and try to define the 
> problem more
> closely.

possibility 1

a unix file has no probably no type or creator.
your fb app is probably looking for these in order to
know what type of file to open. if you look for a type
and creator of '****' then you should see _everything_
including this file.

possibility 2

he creates a file that starts with a 'dot', ie:
'.toto'
the system will consider this invisible and so you may not see it.


possibility 3

he puts a suffix on the file "filename.toto", the system
[because of possibility one above] maps this to a type
and creator that your app can't open.
try solution for possibility one, or giving it a type
that corresponds to one you can open.

possibility 4

none of the above [do you have read file permissions
on the file? on the folder?]

possibility 5

none of the above... more info please

:-j