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- >>>>> "Tim" == Zoology <Tim> writes:
-
- Tim> In your message (Wed, 17 May 1995 23:20:26 -0400), you wrote:
- >> If a Win95 port for Executor is made, then it should have long
- >> filenames even outside of an HFV file. Many aspects of the
- >> Win95 environment are Mac-like. You might want to try to
- >> implement some of them. Also, running Mac programs directly
- >> from the Win95 desktop would be nice.
- >>
- >> SimBoss
-
- Tim> Win95 will render the HFV obsolete (Executor/Linux does not
- Tim> by default use HFV files for precisely this reason; ext2fs
- Tim> allows 255 character filenames), so Mac folders become
- Tim> ordinary directories with two files for each Mac file
- Tim> 'filename' and '%filename' which are the resource and data
- Tim> forks.
-
- [pedant mode on]
-
- Actually, it will make HFV files much less important, but not totally
- render them obsolete, since there are a few esoteric uses of HFV files
- that remain. In fact, we may be switching E/L and E/NS to use a HFV
- file for the volume that holds the system folder because of one of
- them.
-
- Some programs find out where the System Folder is and then decide they
- want to write something at the "root" of that volume. On a UFS (UNIX
- File System) implementation of the Mac FS, this has apps trying to
- write in directories that normally won't have write permission. Ugh.
- The easiest way to get around this is to have the System Folder be in
- an HFV.
-
- In addition, some programs, like Norton Utilities (NU 1.0 runs under
- Executor) know about disk layout and require an HFV or other hfs
- formatted medium to work. Of course you don't *need* NU if you're
- using a UFS based implementation, but it's just an example.
-
- [pendant mode off]
-
- --Cliff
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