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- From: sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman)
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:44:07 GMT
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- In <BxJx49.MBo@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
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- >In article <17310@mindlink.bc.ca> Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg) writes:
- >>(sockets bound to names, streams, devices). But even more common
- >>is the "typed" nature of text files.
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- >Typed files also have problems. I'm no Mac expert, but I fondly
- >remember the problems I had trying to convince the Finder to run a
- >file that I had just downloaded. I still don't remember exactly how I
- >fixed it, but I know it wasn't as easy or obvious as "chmod +x file".
- >And do you really want to be told, "Sorry, you can't edit an
- >executable" by your editor? If I typed "emacs /bin/ls", I probably
- >meant it...
-
- NeXT's have typed files, so if you double click on the icon, the right
- thing happenes. And, the files are treated normally by the Unix file
- system from the command line too, so you can abuse any file with any
- program any any way. Sort of the best of both worlds. Typed files, BTW,
- are not part of the operating system. They are a part of the GUI shell.
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