Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 08:42:37 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: peters@staidan.qld.edu.au (Peter Stubbs) Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Macintosh filesystem features Message-ID: <199512180742.IAA14393@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <12D197189@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> from "Peter Stubbs" at Dec 18, 95 09:29:02 am
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> > On 16 Dec 95 at 23:08, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Aren't OS/2's extended attributes like this? They tend to hold file > type data, icons, and in the case of REXX scripts the object code for Interesting. Perhaps worth a look at. Still having a pack Warp 3 lying around here which failed to install on my Atapi drive a year ago. > the script. But they can be used for whatever you want. It's a nice > feature in OS/2, but I'd hate to see the FreeBSD fs go that way. > It's a bit too un-unix. It's the sort of thing the Linux camp might > do. > > BTW after playing for linux for a while, I've decided that linux > stands for "Linux Is Not UniX", sort of like GNU's name. Reminds me of the days when playing with Doug Comer's XINU. > > Cheers, > Peter > > > Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432 > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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