With thousands of PC Extension codes
The Type/Creator Database Website
Every Macintosh file has two four-character codes associated with it -
its type and creator. The Creator code is unique to each application
and enables the Finder to attach documents to their parent
applications. This way you can "double click" on the Icon of a document
and MacOS will open it with its correct application. The Type code lets
this application to differentiate among its files. Type/Creator
Database is a collection of those codes.
Apple does not provide such a
database, they only allow you to see if a certain code is already
registered (A registered code must not actually be in use).
In OS X Apple diverts from the
pure Type/Creator scheme, leaning more into the PC/Unix world where
file extensions define file typing. Type/Creator codes are still supported by Apple.
Developers that are aware of the benefits of Type/Creator codes keep
using them.
File extensions gain importance
in the Macintosh world. So Type/Creator Database now supplies PC
extension codes. Thousands of extension codes from free sources over the
Internet are now part of TCDB for no extra charge
TCDB 2003.10
for OS X includes 58,921 entries of Type/Creator codes
19,737 entries with PC file extensions (October
2003)
Various Magazines featured Type Creator Database. They wrote about it
and some included the database on their CDROM.
Here are some of them (not very up to date):
- Mac Observer May-2000 Online
article. The same in PDF format
- Japan's MacUser
December-1995 Page 303 & CDROM
- German Mac Welt August-1996
Page 69
- MacAddict November-1997 CDROM, April-1998
Page 74 & CDROM
- MacWorld April-1998 Page 62
- MacFormat (UK) September-1998 Page 44 &
CDROM
- MacLife (Japan) November-1999 & CDROM
- Japan's MacUser
Summer 2000 & CDROM
- Tucows
rated TCDB 2000
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Updated 23rd of October 2003