Larry Stotler wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Felix Miata
wrote: On 2009/02/04 18:23 (GMT+0100) Philipp Thomas composed:
* James Knott (james.knott@rogers.com) [20090203 22:07]:
However, one thing it had was 64KB of extended attributes, which could contain an incredible amount of searchable info about an object.
That was a feature of the file system, not the desktop and are nothing GNOME or KDE could implement on their own. POSIX extended attributes could possibly be used for similiar purposes, but then you would have to go and adapt every utility that somehow deals with files to also use them (which had to be done for all tools ported to OS/2).
There are many, many things that the WPS can do, far more than I can mention in a brief message.
Like I wrote, most of the features you mentioned have nothing to do with the WPS but rather of HPFS, the filesystem OS/2 uses.
HPFS is what OS/2 used initially, but later IBM JFS was added, with the same behavior.
Actually, according to the wikipedia article on the os/2 shadow feature, it was a feature of the shell. If you moved files while the shell wasn't running, the shadow links were broken. If you put it back and then restarted the shell, the shadow would resume. see:
Curious, that's one of the things I used to demonstrate, to show how much better OS/2 was. I guess my computer was imagining things. BTW, while Wikipedia is a very useful source of info, it cannot be considered authoritative. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org