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From: ge@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0
Message-ID: <416@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 30 Aug 89 08:24:22 GMT
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Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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In article <1402@intercon.UUCP> amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker) writes:
>.....................  One of the big wins of
>the new desktop calls under AFP was that you could actually implement AFP
>on a foreign platform without having to actually store away Directory IDs
>for the Finder.  With File IDs, we'll have to go back to maintaining a
>parallel directory structure again.  Bleah :-P

I wonder why it is more difficult to implement file IDs than directory IDs.
I suppose the problem is similar, especially in systems where directories
are implemented as files (NFS/UNIX)

Ge' Weijers

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