[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Paul Sture]

In article <4b40c08e$0$280$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
 Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:

> The *nix and Win way is that extension implies content while VMS and
> to some extent DOS is that application implies content and extension
> usually can be omitted because the application will apply the default.
> 
> I very much prefer the VMS way for command line, but it is
> not easily applied to GUI.

One problem I find with OS X (and I assume other *nix variants) is 
determining which files are executables or scripts. The .EXE and .COM 
convention used by VMS does makes that easy to see at a glance.

OTOH, the GUI for OS X does look inside the file to see what it is, and 
Samba does too, which is what cripples Samba performance on VMS when 
browsing large directories.

-- 
Paul Sture