Bug in A/UX 2.0.1

[Mark Bartelt]

In article <13188 at goofy.Apple.COM>
ksand at Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik, 120dB or more) writes:

| In article <11189 at ncar.ucar.edu> murphy at hao.hao.ucar.edu (Murphy) writes:
| 
| >This is a "feature" of the Finder, when copying files whose
| >names begin with a period between filesystems (I think) and is
| >not A/UX dependent.
| 
| Well, it's not problem, it's a MacOS system dependency! :-). All
| driver names should start with a '.', and beware those end users
| who would like to name their files with a starting dot.

For the benefit of us UNIXoids who know very little about either MacOS
or A/UX, could you elaborate a bit?  Despite the smiley, I don't know
whether your comment was intended to be humourous, flippant, serious,
or two (or all three) of the above.

Are you saying that, despite the fact that Mac files have file types
associated with them, the finder nonetheless uses the *name* of the
file to decide whether something is a driver or not?  If so, isn't
this a horrible botch even in the MacOS world?  And regardless, it's
totally unacceptable in an A/UX environment, given the preponderance
of files whose names begin with '.' under UNIX.

Is something terribly wrong with A/UX in this regard, or have I just
missed a joke that floated over my head?

Mark Bartelt                                             416/978-5619
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