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From: Ray Auchterlounie <rda@kythera.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 02:41:52 +0100
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
[...]
>Emacs runs on the Mac and on OS/2... can it edit Mac resources
>ot OS/2 extended attributes? If it can, we don't need to
>rewrite Emacs... if it can't, then Emacs needs to be fixed,
>since MacOS and OS/2 aren't going to change to suit it.
Emacs is fixable because the source is available (assuming the API for
accessing the attributes is supported by a compiler that can compile
emacs, which wasnt the case or DOS/Netware as far as I could see).
How about (say) Word, or Excel..., they probably run on OS/2 but are
they native (must admit I don't know - I do know that not all windoze
programs have OS/2 versions), can they read/understand EAs ?
If they can't then they need to be fixed since OS/2 isnt going to
change... why do I feel there might be a problem here...
On the other hand, if the attributes were available in the form of a
file in some form of compatibility mode/view/whatever, well Word can
read files, has macro language... and it starts to become fixable.
I know it's ugly, wont work fully, is not the right fix, but if it
works enough to get Word users using your FS then you have a lot more
chance of getting Word fixed properly. Well, IMHO anyway.
ray
--
Ray Auchterlounie Research Student (still) at:
<rda@kythera.demon.co.uk> Signal Processing Group
<rda@eng.cam.ac.uk> Cambridge University Engineering Dept.
"Don't ask me about my thesis (TM)"