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From: leimy2k@speakeasy.net
To: xfire-9fans@xware.cx, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] [Fwd: road sign]
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:05:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a268a67ce263577f302d8dd2d17f86e@psychobunny.homework.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051011071135.GA28683@localhost.localdomain>

> David Leimbach was once rumoured to have said:
>> Why does a file need to be like a directory?  Isn't that what
>> directories are for? :)
> 
> Funnily enough, if you're following the new Mac Order on OSX, thats
> exactly what you do use -- bundles are directories :)

That's the "directory treated as a file".  That makes more sens

All this named attributes on files crap just bugs me.  Makes life harder to deal with not easier.  Good luck copying files from one system to the next in a lossless way.


Dave



  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-11  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-10  3:57 Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-10 19:52 ` Russ Cox
2005-10-11  1:56   ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-11  2:34     ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-11  2:49     ` Chris Collins
2005-10-11  3:05       ` Jeff Sickel
2005-10-11  5:52         ` David Leimbach
2005-10-11  7:11           ` Chris Collins
2005-10-11  8:05             ` leimy2k [this message]
2005-10-11  7:25           ` Uriel
2005-10-11 10:05             ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-13  2:09             ` Jeff Sickel

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