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From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Script bits
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.015136.696@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 19 Feb 91 01:51:36 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.013917.22130@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Feb13.053854.12419@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Feb13.210019.3896@sugar.hackercorp.com>
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In article <1991Feb13.210019.3896@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>That's a Small Matter of Programming in "load_script()". Personally, I like
>the idea of using the Filenote for this (that'd satisfy your "ls" needs)...
>You could also have the #! string in the filenote (check that first, for
>speed).
	I can tell you that I would refuse to use any program that put/changed
anything in the filenotes field, and I don't think I am alone. I use the
filenotes for my own use, primarily to indicate versions and brief descriptions
of what the program does (so you don't have to dig through a ton of files in
your DOCS: direcory to find out what some obscure utility does), which is what
they were intended for. I will resist to the DEATH anything that tries to
steal them from me for a much uglier and IMHO kludgier use. Filenotes are one
of the things that truely sets the Amiga OS apart from other systems, by
allowing the USER to store USER DECIDED info with each file. About the only
thing I would accept for this is the use of filenotes on directories to
indicate the users and security level needed to access the files in the
directory, as is done in some Amiga multi-user software.
>> I kind of like the .info scheme
>Also a good idea...
	This I agree on. Since icons are supposed to be "black box" objects
anyway, if there was a system call that stuck in/retrieved something else
from the icon, that would seem the best method.

			Dave