Re: Madness & frustration... What is a file? What is a Path?
Re: Madness & frustration... What is a file? What is a Path?
- Subject: Re: Madness & frustration... What is a file? What is a Path?
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 06:50:11 -0500
On 5/12/04 1:09 PM, "Doug McNutt" <email@hidden> wrote:
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AppleScript would do well to dump the alias concept altogether and handle
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everything as a full path in an OS neXt environment. And get rid of the file
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specification typedef too.
Nonsense...you'd then have no way to script classic, which is still a
requirement. Also, Aliases are *far* better than those sick little symlinks.
You mean in 30 years, NO ONE in the unix world can properly deal with the
concept that OMGOMG!!!!1111...users sometimes....HORRORS...MOVE a file.
Same thing for fsspec. I'm really sorry that Unix scripters are crippled
into a world of static files and pathname references, but why should we have
to suffer for their refusal to update?
john
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