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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Why NT is better than KDE/UNIX
From:       Jason H <dkfalcon () pmtinet ! com>
Date:       1998-08-20 2:32:10
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Me Again wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Coffee Addict wrote:
>
> >I think NT's file managment is very good, and moving forward very
> >quickly.
> >
> >Unlike UNIX, NT keeps all it's system files in one place... usually the
> >"WINNT" directory. All it's applications in one place... usually the
> >"Progam
> >Files" directory. And one organized place for the users documents...
> >usually
> >the "My Documents" folder.
> > "/home/dan/Desktop" and "/mnt/zip-drive" etc.
> >
> >Also... NTFS was designed to allow programers the ability to orgamize
> >and
> >store files (such as DLL's, INI's, etc.) in data streams.
> >
>
> I'm sorry, is it only me that finds this extremely funny?

Ooooh boy.... I would hate to try to sift through those behemoth directories
after accumulating a decent sized set of apps and files. I personally prefer
knowing that libs will be in the ~/lib dir, binaries will be in the ~/bin dir,
users files will be in the /home/<username> dir, and so on. Makes it much
easier to tell what program(s) a given library belong to, etc. as opposed to
trying to figure out which app installed foobar.dll in the massive system
directory.

As for "data streams", how does that concept work? I havent had any experience
with NT at all, just its cousin '95. Is it comparable to "static libraries"?
Can other programs link to those dll's in the "stream"?

Jason H


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