I recall one of the Perl Mongers (perhaps Uri?) mentioning an article on how the apple designers had to bend over backwards to implement the mac's filesystem conventions on a UNIX filesystem.
http://www.mit.edu/people/wsanchez/papers/USENIX_2000/
As I recently noted the swamp of dot-something files that OS-X hides on my zip disks, I would be interested in being pointed to such article.... so that I can at least know what that swamp of files is for.
They're Finder window positioning data, mainly; this is what .DS_Store is, anyway.
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