On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 05:23:58PM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On NeXT various "NeXT Apps" are simply directory tries and command line
> tools do not even try to hide that fact. If you are using graphical
> file tools then by default they will show up as a single entity but an
> extra command, not hidden very deeply :-), will allow you to open such
> unit as a directory and get to components separately.
Amen, this is exactly what RISC OS does and it works well. Application
directories are distinguished from ordinary directories by starting with
a `!'. There's no need for Linux to follow that convention, but there's
no reason we couldn't.
RISC OS also had the concept of files which were also directories
(so-called image files). They worked rather like a loop device (except
that filesystems and block devices weren't so clearly separated as in
Linux). They sometimes worked well, and sometimes worked very badly.
They were generally used as a tarfs, or similar.
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