> Ahh, indeed, there is the problem and the reason why computing has not > advanced as much in the last 15 years as one would have expected > seeing the 15 years before: Backward compatibilty has hobbled us.
Indeed, I think it has. The Mac OS used to use resource forks and type attributes which were beautiful. Now we have descended to the level of extensions and magic numbers like everyone else. The filesystem supports resource forks and named forks, but nobody's really using them yet--indeed, if anything, at the moment they add confusion because some parts of the OS detect file types that way rather than by extension, when available, so it's hard to know what's going on. Ben. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
