Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:47:49 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 10:25, Horst von Brand wrote: > Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> said: > > [...] > > > FWIW, this is how Windows does it now. As of XP, 'Find files' has an > > option, enabled by default, to look inside archives. If you tell it to > > look for a driver in a given directory it will also look inside .cab > > and .zip files. It's extremely useful, I would imagine someone who uses > > XP a lot will come to expect this feature. > > It is trivial to implement this by looking inside the files. I.e., the way > mc has done this for ages.
This requires a separate, MC-specific namespace. The point is to unify the namespace, not fragment it.
If Hans had a comprehensible web page, maybe more people would understand this aspect of his argument. Would you put digressions about chaos theory and King Arthur in a man page?
Lee
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