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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:38:27 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>
Cc:        "'Joe Abley'" <jabley@clear.co.nz>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adding desktop support
Message-ID:  <3727AA03.AA84571E@newsguy.com>
References:  <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761795F3@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>

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Ladavac Marino wrote:
> 
>         [ML]  Well, it sounds like MacOS, or OS/2 with their structured
> files.  It sounds like Windows, too.  But these capabilities are not bad
> (in fact, a colleague of mine has been recently complaining about
> missing desktop support under X11--he is a OS/2 fan).  Until ELF, UNIX
> didn't really have support for structured executables; now it does, this

Sure it did. FS layers. And they work for all kinds of files, not
only executables.

--
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

	"Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness if that _none_ of his
predictions have come true yet."




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