Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 16:43:52 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Kenneth Albanowski wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > I think NeXT did something like this?
>
> To the best of my knowledge, no. They just have a resource format (".nib",
> I believe) that is easy to work with, much as if a Mac resource fork were
> stored in a separate file.

NeXT stored apps as directorys.. You'd click on the directoy "appname.app"
from the workspace and it'd start the approiate binary from inside the
dir, it looked like a normal file from there. From the shell however, it
was a normal directory.

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