On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Peter da Silva wrote:
> BeOS metadata is useful for humans in organizing and managing
> information about files at a higher level, but it's no better a place
> to put stuff like hard file types than resource forks, finder info, or
> file extensions.
I don't really mean BeOS's
On Nov 1, 2005, at 6:58 PM, Luke Kanies wrote:
Traditional Unix apps don't seem to do anything with extensions; they
don't
really seem to do any sort of filetype recognition at all, from what I
can
tell. I'm sure there are exceptions, but everything I've seen just
uses
extensions for the huma
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:58:49PM -0600, Luke Kanies wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Peter da Silva wrote:
>
> > >> Not that any platform is substantially better at this.
> >
> > Traditional UNIX apps used to look for files with the right extensions
> > but happily ignore them if you told them othe
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Peter da Silva wrote:
> >> Not that any platform is substantially better at this.
>
> Traditional UNIX apps used to look for files with the right extensions
> but happily ignore them if you told them otherwise, with a few
> exceptions (eg, the old trick of linking "tty.c" to "
Not that any platform is substantially better at this.
Traditional UNIX apps used to look for files with the right extensions
but happily ignore them if you told them otherwise, with a few
exceptions (eg, the old trick of linking "tty.c" to "/dev/tty" so you
could type code in and avoid creat
On Oct 31, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Luke Kanies wrote:
This is exactly the kind of absolute stupidity that I feared when Apple
announced their retarded "we're going to store important metadata in
the
file name" policy.
It's less retarded than the "we're going to store important data
(including the
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Bah. This is exactly the same hate as it was when Apple used to store
> important metadata in their special little eight bytes somewhere other
> than the filename.
While I won't disagree with the technical truth of that, the previous system
had a kind
Luke Kanies writes:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Nicholas Clark wrote:
[...]
> But the thing I'm writing about, the thing that pissed me off the most, is
> that it would literally refuse to acknowledge a file full of VCards because
> that file did not have the right extension. Even dragging the stupi
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> $ file ~/tmp/Printout
> /Users/nick/tmp/Printout: PostScript document text conforming at level 2.0
>
> I don't care what its fucking name is. It's postscript. Damn well open it.
> Don't sit there with your pathetic dialogue box showing it greyed out bec
$ file ~/tmp/Printout
/Users/nick/tmp/Printout: PostScript document text conforming at level 2.0
I don't care what its fucking name is. It's postscript. Damn well open it.
Don't sit there with your pathetic dialogue box showing it greyed out because
it doesn't conform to your numskull blinkered id
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