What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

[Jay Plett]

In article <9402 at alice.UUCP>, andrew at alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) writes:
- In article <459 at crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, barnett at crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
- > Long filenames are great. I use filenames all the time to hold
- > extra information, which allows database queries using shell meta-characters.
- 
- storing information is what a filesystem is for.
- if you want to use regular expressions, put the information
- in a file. don't complicate a universal mechanism like
- the file-system name space just so you can be lazy about
- selecting filenames.

Oh for cryin' out loud.

Tools are for using.  One of the best measures of a tool's
success is the number of ways users can find to use it which
were never anticipated by its maker.

Barnett is creative, not lazy.

	jay at princeton.edu