Re: Fwd: Re: [Usability]File renaming/extensions [chbm chbm nu]

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2002.08.20 15:53:23 +0100 David Lazaro wrote:
> > there is no need of filesystem support for this so it doesn't belong
> there.
> > it also makes for happy fun b0rkage like "i'm reading the mime-type from
> > the filesystem but did the other app update it or am i reading crap ?"
>
> Have you read the report at namesys.com? It would bring much more
> features that should have been on computers a long long time ago...
some time ago, yes. reiser discovered the "fs is a db" paradigm.
good for him. i'm not a big fan of the church of reiser.

> > unix solved this long ago. the solution is called magic numbers. sensible
> > formats have magic numbers. those who don't need to be replaced.
> > i like the way gmc can find my jpegs even if i don't moronicaly name them
> > foo.jpg
>
> You are right, extensions are not needed. So way does almost every
> application depend on them, nowadays?

i can't think of any offhand ..

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