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- From: oahvenla@hyppynaru.cs.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
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- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: 14 Mar 1996 20:44:47 +0200
- Organization: What, me, organised?
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- In article <Do7Ivr.12B@cee.hw.ac.uk> ceerm@cee.hw.ac.uk (Rod MacLean) writes:
- >>Would be nice but the filetype recog must be done different. Say put the
- >>filetype INTO the icon.
- >Ahhh, no. If the filetype was somehow held in the fileinfoblock then
- >every file could have a filetype, not just ones with icons.
- >This is probably one of the things I would *most* like to see.
-
- I can't believe it. Amiga has the most flexible file type recognition
- system on any platform, and people want to replace it with a stupid
- fixed-type system that doesn't even retain the information over
- different systems. What next, a forked filesystem? Maybe we should use
- MacBinary for file transfers?
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