Re: tangent warning. was: Re: [PLUG] .directory files

[Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>]

Mental Patient wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 22:11, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 07:51:38PM -0400, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> >
> > > This is because of a small oversight on the FS designers not to allow for 
> > > metadata in the filesystem.
> >
> > Pshaw. There's plenty of room for metadata in the FS. It just so
> > happens it's used for storing little things like file modification
> > times and such. You know, nothing so important as an icon's
> > position.

<big snippage>

> I for one, appreciate a decent GUI for day to day tasks. I do not feel
> this lessens my abilities. When the GUI doesnt do what I need, I'm fully
> capable of using and appreciate my Eterm. That said, there are times the
> CLI isn't the right answer. 

Uh. I really don't think that Gabe was arguing agains GUIs. Just 
pedanticly pointing out that there is plenty of metadata about each file 
in the filesystem.

--
Will Dyson
"Back off man, I'm a scientist!" -Dr. Peter Venkman

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