Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:20:12 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: nice troll (was: All this resource-fork AKA multiple stream nonsense) |
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Stefan Monnier writes: >"Albert" == Albert D Cahalan <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> writes:
>> You have a 1.5 GB compound document. >> It contains 3 evenly sized parts. >> You want to extend the middle part by one byte. > > You know perfectly well that this 3-component document will be > represented not as a file but as a directory, so extending the > middle part is just as easy as with "forks". Using bogus arguments > is not a good way to convince people around here.
Fortunately I don't mind trolls. I don't think I have _ever_ seen a compound document represented as a directory. I know that TeX users do it sometimes, but they aren't normal users anyway. Ask a random MBA, art student, or secretary what "TeX" is. Normal users don't write Makefiles for their documents.
Every directory-based document system has failed for general use. Directories are containers or "folders", distinct from documents. Attempts to hide this in a GUI will always fail.
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