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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan J Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Clueless Mac people speaking in the Amiga area. :-) (Was Re: How do we change the scheduler? Why is was I don't know...)
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lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) writes:
>``If programmed to do so, yes''  Well of course, *anything* can be programmed,
>I believe the important point is that the MacOS does not support these
>sorts of things like AmigaOS, UNIX, VMS, etc do at the OS level.  And like
>most things under the MacOS, if you want it *you*, the programmer, 
>must recreate it for every program.  

  Hmm.  I just use a class library for most of the "common" actions.
Takes no work at all on my part.


>We're not even talking about the brain dead file system Apple uses,
>what a kludge --- they thought that a flat file system would be enough,
>then later, when they saw otherwise, *tried* to add a hierarchical
>file system.  It's really the most (current day, in use) pitiful
>file system I have ever seen.  The workings of the guts of the
>file system are not hidden from the applications at all.  They have
>to `know' about everything.  

 Depends on what level you're programming at...  The standard FSOpen,
and FSRead etc calls, work fine if you're just reading and writing
files.  Navigating around directories, I agree, is a lot more
difficult.

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