Use of .app Extension

One of the ways Mac OS X determines if a package is an application is through the use of file extensions. The rules to determine if a package is an application are:

On all file systems: the presence of a .app suffix
On HFS+ only: the .app suffix is optional, if the package bit is set and the folder contains a new style info.xml.

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Last updated: 2007-03-06

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