Re: nice troll (was: All this resource-fork AKA multiple stream nonsense)

Rodger Donaldson (rodgerd@ihug.co.nz)
Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:22:50 +1200


On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:20:12PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> I don't think I have _ever_ seen a compound document represented as a
> directory. I know that TeX users do it sometimes, but they aren't normal
> users anyway. Ask a random MBA, art student, or secretary what "TeX" is.

Perhaps, before pontificating on the needs of `real users,' you should try
talking to some of them. Many of the arts students I know use TeX and LaTeX
regularly. And store their compund documents in directories.

For that matter, all the designers and design students I know use
directories to store their compount documents, even on systems that support
streamed filesystems.

Poke your head outside linux-kernel sometime. It could be enlightening for
you.

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Rodger Donaldson		rodgerd@ihug.co.nz
"I am pagerboy, hear me beep!"
		-- Chris "Saundo" Saunderson, in asr

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