[geeks] Postscript question

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 12:47 AM, Jonathan C. Patschke 
wrote:
>> One can hope that as OS X matures it will get better in these areas.  
>> My
>> understanding was that it is so different that porting the standard
>> tools isn't trivial.
>
> Well, as much as the marketroids like to say "it's Unix!!" to the
> techies, it isn't really--at least, not as an entire system.  The
> problems with porting recovery/repair tools are twofold.  For one,
> the standard filesystem is HFS+, not UFS or FFS, so you have to deal
> with multiple forks and all the other HFS weirdness.

   Not to be argumentative, but...

   I can sit and write "UNIX-ish" code in C all day on an OS X box and 
have things Just Work.  And I sit at this machine all day, every day, 
and I have yet to even notice the existence of multiple forks, though I 
haven't exactly gone looking for them.

   I've been a UNIX bigot since X10 (yes, X release TEN) was 
current...and OS X is UNIX enough for me.

       -Dave

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