Re: Apple2 archive at grind.isca.uiowa.edu

[cust_ts@kruuna.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)]

In article <1993Sep23.165405.7872@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
Steven Nelson <snelson@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
>From article <27rerm$739@kruuna.Helsinki.FI>, by cust_ts@kruuna.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand):
>> IM(H?)O, the _only_ excuse for having no suffixes is if _all_ files are in
>> the same format, be it .bsc, .bsq, or plain .shk. Even in that case I'd
>> prefer to have them.
>> 
>> Tero Sand, 2 kyu		! Science is a process of enlarging one's
>
>A honest opinion.  I'm not a ms-dos fanatic for filenames.  the '.xxx' suffix
>is a waste of 4 of the 15 char ProDOS filename.  That is why ProDOS has
>filetype and auxtype fields, but of course that is lost on a unix file system.
>The better suggestion to me has been to make directories /binscii /gshk /shk
>etc. for keeping together like file types.  The disadvantage is more sub-dirs
>but as large as the grind archive is, maybe fewer files per directory and more
>directories is the way to go.

I for one would like to cut *unnecessary* directories out. I'd find it
ridiculous, if I want to find an NDA for example, to have to search
three directories (GS/binscii/nda, GS/shk/nda, and GS/binscii/shk/nda)
to find it.
Another point. GSHK shows, by default, only those files which are of
correct file type *and* those which end in '.SHK'. If 'correct' suffixes
aren't used, the downloader has to either rename the file, set the
filetype, or click the "show all files" radio button in the dialog box.
Not much work, perhaps, but after you do it a few times it becomes
annoying.

Finally, I think that msdos bit was unnecessary. That has/had nothing to
do with the issue.

>  --Steven Nelson               steven-nelson@uiowa.edu


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