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Mac OSes up to 9 had a 'resource fork' in each file containing codes indicating the creator and the type of data. This became a separate, hidden file with Mac OSX on unix.... Always thought the original version was better.. Bob On 15 Jun 2006, at 08:55, Michael Kay wrote: >> Having spent some time following this perma-thread - it seems >> to me that if I was a designing an OS from scratch I would >> ditch the file extensions (in MS, VMS, etc) and use MIME >> types mapped to OS functions as part of the i-node or >> directory structure. > > I am sure that anyone designing an operating system from scratch > would make > the file system strongly typed, with much more scope for holding and > retaining metadata relating to the content of files - but I would > hope that > they would do better than using MIME types, which are a pretty crude > mechanism. For example, how does a MIME type capture which version > of Word > is needed to open a file? > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> >
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