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From: Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem
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> This is how Nextstep does it. You can have the files .dir.tiff
> and .opendir.tiff in any directory Nextstep shows a default icon
> (an image of a folder) when the files are not present or the
> contents of the tiff images (scaled down to fit) if they are in
> place and readable.
>
> The user must not use dotfiles of this specific name for other
> purposes. In practice, this is not a problem.
1) This is a stupid restriction. Just like the old 640k memory
restriction in DOS/realmode.
2) NeXT can do this since most NeXT apps are custom-made for NeXT,
and they don't have to worry about compatibility (much). Linux
must remain POSIX-compatible, and run POSIX apps (which don't
know about the restriction on filenames not being ".dir.tiff")
3) This restriction also compromises NeXTStep's UNIX/POSIX
compatibility.
Admittedly, this works, but I would really like to see a better
soloution.