[openbeos] Re: ISO-9660 BFS filesystem extension
- From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 06:48:24 -0500
>> Can you explain to me the usefullness of BeOS-only
>> attributes on a CD on a non-BeOS system? BeOS attributes,
>> as awesome as they are, would be near useless on a
>> CD meant for many operating systems.
>
>This is where I said BeOS must lead. If the attributes are
>so neat, then why not devise a way to make them accessible
>to other OS too? You are the coding experts, so you know how
>to do it. I just see it from a marketing and usability angle.
>;)
There is no support in NT or MacOS for BeOS like attributes
at a user level. Nothing like Find by Attribute, at least,
not that I am aware of. So, I guess, if we wanted to write
NT and Mac apps to do finds... And add-ons (not sure that you
even can) to explorer...
>Alternatively, let BeOS write a text file (or whatever) onto
>the CD (or other medium) extolling on the virtues of the
>BeOS and its file attributes. IOW, you gotta find a way to
>attract attention to the BeOS - one way or another.
That you could do.
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