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SubjectRe: ext2(3?) streams application
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 12:49:15PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Alternatively, you could put all of the
> information into seprate files in a directory, which is the approach
> NeXTStep used instead of the diastrous resource fork approach used by
> the Macintosh.

This was also the approach taken by Acorn's RISC OS for applications.
It works very nicely. It didn't work terribly well for data files,
but that was for a braindead implementation reason -- it could have
worked nicely.

--
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson

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