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>> Not that any platform is substantially better at this. Traditional UNIX apps used to look for files with the right extensions but happily ignore them if you told them otherwise, with a few exceptions (eg, the old trick of linking "tty.c" to "/dev/tty" so you could type code in and avoid creating a file). > BeOS's system was pretty sweet, and I just don't understand why people > haven't stolen it, or at least something like it. Dammit. Because: 1. if your applications are smart enough to ignore the metadata when you know better, you don't need it. 2. if they're not, you're just as boned.There's stuff above here
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