19 Dec
2011
19 Dec
'11
2:28 p.m.
MikeS wrote:
Ok,
Holm
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Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:52:03 +0100
From: Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de>
MikeS wrote:
No. There are other mechanisms that differentiate what file can be executed
and wich not, not dependign on the file name. The long directoy listing
shows what is executable:
here is the entry for /bin/ls on my machine:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 26112 30 Sep 14:58 ls
and that's a jpg:
-rw------- 1 holm holm 200804 7 Aug 20:01 llll2.jpg
Where is your problem?
Windows is hiding the extension by default, for what is this good for?
For viruses? Seems to be so, this feature is mostly used by them.
---- Original message:
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:13:38 +0100
From: Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de>
>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? 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?
I'm not a UNIX expert so I must have misunderstood; you mean UNIX cares
about file extensions after all and I can't name a UNIX executable
"your_win.jpg" ?
At least the modern DOS equivalent (which is what we're talking about,
remember?) *does* show the all-important .EXE in the file name, as will
Windows if you've enabled it. How does UNIX warn me at a quick glance?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's the point.
...
<Half a dozen paragraphs of the traditional redundant and totally irrelevant
Microsoft-bashing drivel removed for readability>
Maybe I have to reinsert them..
...
What for? I haven't quoted this from somewhere, this was from memory.
BTW, I
think this quote from Ritchie himself sums it up perfectly:
"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity."
> m Hmm, wasn't it "Unix IS user friendly,
but it is a little restrictive what
his friends are.."
Look it up! I think you'll find dozens of references, as well as to your
quote, e.g.
http://inagist.com/CodeWisdom/146592721312817153/
or
http://quotes.prolix.nu/Technology/Computers/ 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 doubt it; born and raised in Hamburg my German's actually pretty good.
m