On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 07:42:25 -0400 (EDT), Chris Faherty wrote:
>>>The resource fork is something that *should* have made it into every
>>>other file system. Determining a file type based on 3 characters after
>>>the last dot? *That's* the ridiculous idea.
>>
>> I agree totally! That's why I use a computer that doesn't work that
>> way.
>
>I like magic numbers myself, or at least whatever frobozzations the UNIX file
>command uses to give this glorious information:
The almost-forgotten OS/2 has that too. It's called Extended Attributes
and it is basically a parallel stream of up to 64K of data.
We don't open windows - it would break our climate :)))
Best regards,
Gregec
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