Re: Mac OS X Finder views
Re: Mac OS X Finder views
- Subject: Re: Mac OS X Finder views
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:42:33 +0100
Jon Pugh wrote:
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At 10:50 AM -0600 7/25/02, garbanzito wrote:
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>i think you might have overstated that just a bit.. Apple
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>has mandated filename extensions, but not deprecated HFS
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>metadata:
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Yet...
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The infamous repealed technote was full of these prognostications, along
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with "use pathnames instead of aliases" and other goofy mandates. Of
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course, this technote was pulled because it was so stupid, but because it
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was written by Avie, it will be back.
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While I would like to see Apple make HFS+ available to the Unix world, I
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expect that instead they will attempt to wean us off of such archaic
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Macintosh specific technologies.
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Only time will tell if I am right or wrong here.
Oh, I dunno, Jon... I expect they'll still be arguing over whose particular
implementation of crude, clunky, inflexible, 1950s technology is best when
The Next Big Thing comes along and eats their lunches wholesale...
has
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