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- From: aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis)
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 06:08:11 GMT
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- In <sherman.721601047@foster> sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman) writes:
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- > 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.
-
- In other words, they are not typed files. If it isn't typed by the kernel,
- then it isn't typed.
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- This is with the UNIX philosophy, which states that the kernel has no
- business interpreting the contents of files, that files should simply appear
- as a given sequence of bytes.
-
- By the way, it is fairly easy to do some intelligent file-type identification
- in order to do the Right Thing.
-
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