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   XPost: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy   
   From: SPAMjasonzc@yahoo.com   
      
   Lew.Pitcher@td.com (Lew Pitcher) wrote in   
   news:3fc24711.19965473@news21.on.aibn.com:   
      
   > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:31:20 -0000, Support the War on Freedom   
   >  wrote:   
   > [snip]   
   >>Filetypes, in particular, desperately need to be added to the OS.   
   >   
   > Of all the abstractions available, "filetype" is the /last/ one I'd   
   > want to be added to the OS. It is an ill-concieved abstraction that is   
   > often poorly and improperly implemented.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Sorry. Datatypes. Doh.   
      
   Filetyping isn't an issue, except for Windows machines, I guess. Linux is   
   about halfway there. BeOS and AmigaOS handled filetypes very, very well.   
      
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