Re: Preview

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From: Peter da Silva
Subject: Re: Preview
Date: 01:30 on 01 Nov 2005
>> 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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