And people who write programs on Linux that utilise the streams would have
to be well aware of this, otherwise their programs would be inherently
broken.
# > comments, icons, etc -- is useful, but not vital to the file,
# > and not a "mistake."
#
# Many users will violently disagree here. And of course, type and creator
# info is bloody essential.
It's essential under MacOS, because it's the only means to identify a file
(or at least, the only means the OS uses). Under Unix, it'd be an
overriding method ("if it's there, and we understand it, then use it"),
but not a required method. Programs that depended on the streams being
there wouldn't be particularly widely-used, because they wouldn't work all
that well.
-- Mo McKinlay Chief Software Architect inter/open Labs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Key: pub 1024D/76A275F9 2000-07-22 Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay@gnu.org>
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