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Mac OSes up to 9 had a 'resource fork' in each file containing codes
indicating the creator and the type of data. This became a separate,
hidden file with Mac OSX on unix....
Always thought the original version was better..
Bob
On 15 Jun 2006, at 08:55, Michael Kay wrote:
>> Having spent some time following this perma-thread - it seems
>> to me that if I was a designing an OS from scratch I would
>> ditch the file extensions (in MS, VMS, etc) and use MIME
>> types mapped to OS functions as part of the i-node or
>> directory structure.
>
> I am sure that anyone designing an operating system from scratch
> would make
> the file system strongly typed, with much more scope for holding and
> retaining metadata relating to the content of files - but I would
> hope that
> they would do better than using MIME types, which are a pretty crude
> mechanism. For example, how does a MIME type capture which version
> of Word
> is needed to open a file?
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
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