Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Files starting with .
From: Steve Lay (S.W.Lay@damtp.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 27 1998 - 05:34:25 EST
>They did a lot of studies? That makes me curious: do you have a pointer as
>to where to find these? Given the visual nature of the user interface they
>didn't need a delimiter at all: no command line interface as in Unix with
>the need to use a printable character which one can type, and no, MPW and
>AppleScript did appear much later; internal structures could cope with any
>byte code and even could use schemes without an explicit delimiter at all.
Now of course every Mac trivia buff knows that this is not true. Folders
started out life as an expensive illusion maintained by the Finder. After
all, how many files can a person get on a 720K floppy disk? In those days
you really could type the colon in the open file dialog box, and indeed
this continued on with syntax such as "::file" for going up a directory.
Steve
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