Re: Non-UNIX Changes
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 04:31:57PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Agreed, and I'd also agree that almost all of the "flaming" that takes
> place vis-a-vis both Linux and Windows comes from the same standpoint
> of assuming that there are Two True Operating Systems, UNIX and Windows,
> and One of Them Shall Win The Day.
Not many people things Windows is any True Operating System.
> Another thing that could be worth having in the filesystem might be a
> return to "record-oriented" files. That is, having some semantics that
> go beyond the UNIX notion of a file being a "bag of bytes." That way
> the filesystem might support some structuring within the file.
> Trivial would be fixed-size records, rather like the way VMS and MVS
> have supported.
What record-oriented file can do what can't be done by 20 lines of cpp macros ?
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