Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> In message <199810052000.QAA26886@valhalla.cc.columbia.edu>, "Johan M.
> Andersen
> " writes:
> +-----
> | > At first sight this may look like a proposal to bloat the Unix file
> | > system. But the filetype info really belongs into each directory
> | > entry, because
> |
> | Are you sure it belongs in the directory entry and not the inode? Can two
> | links to the same file have different types?
> +--->8
>
> It'd be one way to allow a file to be "opened" in multiple ways. I'd prefer
> multiple registrations and a WPS-style "Open As" myself....
Hmmmm..... Don't like that much. WPS? What's that?. But if someone ever figures
out per-user metadata, this would be a good use.
<asbestos suit>
I think it would be nice if I could do something to temporarily consider a certain
file to have a certain type. In reiserfs style (as I understand it), this might
look something like
display random-image.gif/text
text being a pseudofile (I would call it a member function) whose contents
references random-image's but whose returned filetype is text, so that display, a
generic displayer, will display the image as an ascii dump, which can be very
useful (esp with FITS files, etc.)
</asbestos suit>
David Feuer
>
>
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> electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
> carnegie mellon university
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