On Fri, 5 Dec 1997 17:47:19 +0000 
 "Robert Black" <r.black@ic.ac.uk> wrote:

 > This is going somewhat off-topic but it is interesting to consider Acorn's way
 > of doing this sort of thing, which is to make most applications (and some data)
 > 'special' directories and the resources are just files within it (code, fonts,
 > bitmaps, data, etc). Certain resource filenames are magic but applications can
 > use anything else for their own purposes. This approach has the advantage that
 > it requires minimal mangling of the filesystem.

This was actually NeXT's way of doing things, too :-)

mmm, Boink.app

Unfortunately, this doesn't help when you need to have the actual file
system code perform special operations on regular files.

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