Odds & Ends: Fonts and OS X; Retrospect run from Classic; File name extension glitch

Fonts and Mac OS X: info from Extensis This web page from Extensis provides some useful tutorial information on fonts and Mac OS X. For more general font-related info, check this page.

Retrospect run from Classic The other day, we mentioned a MacFixIt Forums thread (Recovering from Retrospect) that "provides a UNIX shell script to do a full backup of your hard drive." We should have also noted another point made in the thread: Do not use Retrospect from Classic when booted from Mac OS X. Doing so can corrupt both your source and backup volumes. (Thanks, Paul Derby.)

File name extension glitch Scott Boone notes a minor glitch with Apple's use of file name extensions (see previous coverage): If you grab a URL from a web browser and drag it to the desktop to create a clipping file, the file should have a Kind (as seen in the Show Info window) of "Web Internet Location." This works correctly if you try it with www.macfixit.com for example. However, if you try this with a page where the URL ends in .html, the file is incorrectly given a Kind of "HTML". On the plus side, files that end in .shtml are correctly identified. Mac OS 9 correctly lists all of these URL clippings as a "web page location" Kind.