18 Dec
2011
18 Dec
'11
8:21 p.m.
On 18 December 2011 19:52, Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> wrote:
MikeS wrote:
That's a good, fair point. I suspect that actually the Unix approach -
of an attribute denoting runnability - is the better way there.
Or the Acorn RISC OS and NeXTStep/Mac OS X approach layered on top,
which is that GUI "applications" - as opposed to mere executable - are
a specially-formatted directory. (Why? Because you can open one up and
look inside, without using special tools.)
---- Original message:
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:13:38 +0100
From: Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de>
You ask me what's wrong? Never heard of a file called "your_win.jpg.exe"
for
example and was most Windoze users are doning with such a file and how its
name is displayed on most windoze machines? Files should have an header wich describes what
type of data the file
represents.
Why?
What is so terribly wrong with using the file's _name_ to describe the type
of data a file represents, so that those "humans" that you seem to disdain
elsewhere can also know and work with its type, not just the computer? PS:
Sorry for my broken english, never learned it in a shool or so, it's
entirely from using unixoid OS's and communicateing with people like you
over the net. Proably it's still better as your german :-)
I had russian in the shool but had never to use it so I forgot most of
it.
Kein problem. Es ist gut. Ich wei?e nicht ?ber die Amerikaneren, aber
hier in Gro?brittanien, wir haben uns ein bi?chen Deutsch...
(Cameron, Rich A, entschuldigung!)
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