From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 3:31:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ewok.creative.net.au (ewok.creative.net.au [203.30.44.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 547D514F97 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 03:31:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 4919 invoked by uid 1008); 28 Apr 1999 10:31:20 -0000 Message-ID: <19990428103120.4917.qmail@ewok.creative.net.au> From: adrian@freebsd.org To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding desktop support In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:28:26 +0100." Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:31:20 +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dom Mitchell writes: >On 28 April 1999, Joe Abley proclaimed: >> This all sounds very non-unixy. But I don't really know why. > >Because it's exactly what the Mac has been doing for over a decade. I >don't think that there's anything terribly wrong with the idea. In >fact, it's good we are making use of the facilities that our ELF >changeover has bought us. > >The one problem I do see with this idea however, is that it only applies >to binaries, and not data. >-- >Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator ... and so have pcs in the .exe file format. If you want to do it for data, then you would have to make mime-type (or whatever you use to slap on a file type) part of the filesystem entry. Or use extensions. Like what happens now. Adrian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message