From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6bf1c4b845bd2160 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Yannick_Duch=EAne_=28Hibou57=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What about a glob standard method in Ada.Command_Line ? Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:39:07 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <4c6f9837$0$5420$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> <4c739e76$0$6992$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <152a2z5en4z2o$.xjsuqr7s8yak$.dlg@40tude.net> <4c73e859$0$6991$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <4c73fcf6$0$6992$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <1jxm50y65grlo.sjyb9hm4y1xp$.dlg@40tude.net> <4c743a59$0$6893$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: H0Ci3WDhdyTdURnA0sNEyw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.61 (Win32) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13741 Date: 2010-08-25T22:39:07+02:00 List-Id: Le Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:15:56 +0200, (see below) = a =E9crit: >> Mac OS used to have a good technique to tag files types and applicati= ons >> to be used to open it, via meta-data... unfortunately, it drop it wit= h = >> OS >> X to follow DOS/Windows convention (many users was disappointed, but = = >> Apple >> did not care). > > This is false (or so misleading as to be false FAPP). The DOS/Windows > convention is only one of several techniques MacOS X supports for = > file-type > association. I do not own a Mac, so may be indeed I was wrong somewhere. But I use to= = read about the Mac system and philosophy to try to figure if there is or= = not a technical solution to compile Mac applications from Windows. So I = = came to this topic, and really I read something about it, stating = something changed there when switching from the ancient Mac 0S up to 9, = to = the new Mac OS X (completely different system in the core, while mostly = = compatible in many topics). And I am sure I have read complaints about t= he = file extension =E0 la Windows vs the file type tag. May be both are sti= ll = coexisting and there is just less focus on the type tag so fans of the = original Mac way was disappointed ? (as I said, I do not own a Mac, so = cannot figure this my self) Any way, thanks for the possible error you noticed. > See . Oh s**t, wikipedia again. Fed-up, sorry, will try to peak another source= , = sure there must be another one. -- = * 3 lines of concise statements is readable, 10 pages of concise = statements is unreadable ; * 3 lines of verbose statements may looks unuseful, 10 pages of verbose = = statements will never looks too much pedantic