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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ban the Cloud! (plus sugg. for Workbench)
Message-ID: <5328@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 88 19:54:30 GMT
Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones) wrote:
>the Unix approach is right ... adopt a convention of .iff, .txt, .bin,

Yuk.  Sounds more like some DEC operating systems, or MS-DOS.  I
happen to like naming files usenet.info, except that I'm always afraid
some utility (like WB) is going to assume it's some file that it
should be concerned with, so I end up with usenet-info instead.

I just don't want to see suffixes (aka extensions) forced on users, we
already have a very flexible naming scheme, and I'd like to keep it
flexible.

Any application program (including WorkBench) that assumes they own
files with certain extensions should be changed.

>Why not just have a .files file in every directory that is simply a
>listing of all of the files in the directory and maintained by the

Why not do it RIGHT and put the list in the directory header, so users
can't muck with it?  Sure it means a ROM change, but since FFS is
going into ROM in 1.4 (by all accounts, anyway), why not change the
directory headers to contain file names before 1.4?

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
"I don't know such stuff.  I just do eyes."  -- from 'Blade Runner'