Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
25 Aug 1998 23:17:54 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.93.980825035252.1281F-100000@kjahds.kjahds.com>
By author: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > 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.
>

Actually the NeXT GUI treated directories with certain extensions
(.app mainly) as, in effect, forky files.

-hpa

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