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

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

Hi,

On 20 Aug 2002, David Lazaro wrote:

> 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...

They were on computers a long long time ago, as long as those computers
ran OS/2 :-) Extended Attributes can contain any information about the
object or file they belong to, including but not limited to mime types and
associations.

> You are right, extensions are not needed. So way does almost every
> application depend on them, nowadays?

Application developers who are locked in windows-centric thinking?

regards,

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