Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 23:08:59 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Macintosh filesystem features Message-ID: <199512162208.XAA10433@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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I was reflecting about a featute that the MacOS has and which I did not see on other OSs: The DATA and the RESOURCE fork. I don't know if this is patented and why it has not been adopted by other filesystems. Not even in Win95 (though this doesn't actually say much :) you can find this feature. At least I believe it is not possible to add an arbitrary resource to an arbitrary file (like a bitmap). (One can link an .rbj to an .exe, though but that's all) At most to a certain extension like .doc to Word files and so on. What I'm asking myself (and file system experts) if this could be implemented in FreeBSD, perhaps as an addition/extension to the existing filesystems. When designing GUIs, window managers and such it would be nice if this resource/data dualism would be hidden rather than having sort of container files or other methods like .hidden files or files starting with special characters (%). Comments? --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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