[geeks] Happy Holidays, everyone.

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:55:26PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> Apple had darn well better keep all that stuff, it's most of what MacOS
> has done perfectly.  File extensions, and even the information that
> programs like file can spit out about files don't hold a candle the
> resource forks on MacOS.  I just wish I could get those on my Linux
> desktop, and have things take advantage of them...

I was under the impression that modern (ish) executable formats like ELF
allowed you to have segments in them for doing that sort of thang.

I'm sorry, but HFS+ sucks Far Too Much.  Just you try - for instance -
creating two files in the same directory, called 'configure' and
'Configure'.  Can't be done.  Which means that installing some software
which should be easy is a complete bitch.  IF it was case-sensitive then
I'd be happy.

I'm going to investigate porting the cfs to OS X so I can put my entire
home dir in it and have at least that be case-sensitive.

-- 
David Cantrell | david at cantrell.org.uk | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

  I often reflect that if "privileges" had been called "responsibilities"
  or "duties", I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people
  why they were only gonna get them over my dead body. 
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