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From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: file attributes
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Date: 20 Jun 91 08:55:30 GMT
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In article <1743@sranha.sra.co.jp>, erik@sra.co.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) writes:
> On the Macintosh, it is possible to double click on the icon that
> represents a file to invoke the application associated with that file.
> It is difficult to build a GUI (graphical user interface) to do the
> same for Unix systems, since Unix does not offer a standard way of
> attaching an application name to a file.
> 

Uh...

Haven't you seen SCO's Open Desktop?  It does just this, but without (I hope) 
any gruesome kernel hacks.  The last thing we need is more system calls.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@prl.dec.com

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