file attributes

[Boyd Roberts]

In article <1743 at sranha.sra.co.jp>, erik at sra.co.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) writes:
> On the Macintosh, it is possible to double click on the icon that
> represents a file to invoke the application associated with that file.
> It is difficult to build a GUI (graphical user interface) to do the
> same for Unix systems, since Unix does not offer a standard way of
> attaching an application name to a file.
> 

Uh...

Haven't you seen SCO's Open Desktop?  It does just this, but without (I hope) 
any gruesome kernel hacks.  The last thing we need is more system calls.


Boyd Roberts			boyd at prl.dec.com

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