On Sep 21, 10 00:04, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
KennyTM~ wrote:True, but then, there is no rule that says that on windows a file manager must use the extension. However, on Windows, all the file managers I've tried have used the extension (actually, most of the time they don't use the extension themselves, they simply ask Windows to open the file and Windows uses the extension), whereas on UNIX most file managers use the file contents (usually, they don't use the file command, but instead rely on libmagic directly) and most applications will ignore the extension when asked to open a file (OK, some Windows applications do that too but on *NIX most of them do).JeromeMac OS X is UNIX. Finder cares about the file extension (besides metadata).most: You can use *most* to refer to the majority of a group of things or people or the largest part of something. One counter example does not invalidate my point. Especially when the example is invalid: MacOS X is *not* UNIX. True, the low level parts are UNIX-based, which makes it easy to port UNIX apps, however that doesn't make the whole into a UNIX. In particular, finder was ported from older versions of MacOS and inherits a large part of its behaviour from those older versions. Jerome
Your definition of Unix is wrong then. Unix *only* specifies the API (system interface and headers) and the command-line utilities. You *are* confusing Unix and the distro.
Ref: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
