Re: Dot files
Re: Dot files
- Subject: Re: Dot files
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:35:01 -0500
- Thread-topic: Dot files
On 6/21/06 02:08, "Ruth Bygrave" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hey, nice quote. I don't really know anything about this historical subject,
> but when I knew people who used the room-full-of-Macs at college (possibly
> System 6.0 or 7.0), quite a few of them seemed to spend a lot of time swearing
> at things with forks. Am willing to believe they have s Seekrit Benefit I
> don't know about
It wasn't any great secret. It was a way to get a GUI to work in 1984 when
you had 128K of RAM and a 400K floppy as your entire world. Resources made
it easier to have the various program, well resources, like icons, windows,
window types, dialogs, etc. separate from raw data. The dual fork system was
just how they chose to store it, and it worked, and works quite well. HFS*
is hardly the only file system to support multiple file streams. NTFS, HPFS,
the VMS FS, etc., have all supported multiple file streams. It's a much more
elegant way to handle file metadata at the machine level. The problem hits
when you start going between platforms.
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"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just
bombed."
U.S. Air Force Manual.
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