jas88@cam.ac.uk (James Sutherland) wrote on 13.08.00 in <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008131013380.11153-100000@dax.joh.cam.ac.uk>:
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 05:23:58PM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > > On NeXT various "NeXT Apps" are simply directory tries and command line
> > > tools do not even try to hide that fact. If you are using graphical
> > > file tools then by default they will show up as a single entity but an
> > > extra command, not hidden very deeply :-), will allow you to open such
> > > unit as a directory and get to components separately.
> >
> > Amen, this is exactly what RISC OS does and it works well. Application
> > directories are distinguished from ordinary directories by starting with
> > a `!'. There's no need for Linux to follow that convention, but there's
> > no reason we couldn't.
>
> A very elegant solution. An application is just a directory whose name
> starts with "!".
Or ends with ".app" (NeXTstep, IIRC).
MfG Kai
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