Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!198.186.194.247.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.palinacquisition!news.posted.palinacquisition.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:40:08 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:40:08 -0700 From: Peter Duniho User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: CLI Java Glitch References: <4dffe2ea$0$57121$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 26 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.46.118.188 X-Trace: sv3-Hjj3DpmWWmlWOlCXJfboXxyASlmh25GXbP0aGeq8MbTWcftvSTTY49jxke8ysRAryVIN3OHmqaq0c6I!8Cj3l2gyI5/U4n/9i6IW2V3GzRvKM8G5aHqeAbqrNyCyuO+SjDHqb/lvlITIoUbLLJ5Fc9bXqddf!WLkVMdXZDDObAwMFmxHdMgibQGFaZKeWTXGC2anybFA= X-Complaints-To: abuse@iinet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@iinet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2535 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5627 On 6/23/11 3:04 PM, Tom Anderson wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Michael Wojcik wrote: > >> Tom Anderson wrote: >> >>> It would certainly have been better to say file system rather than >>> operating system, i agree. However, the file system is part of the >>> operating system. >> >> Often it isn't. Many OSes support multiple file systems. Some are >> case-sensitive, some -insensitive. > > And all are part of an operating system! I guess that depends on your point of view. It's not worth arguing about, but suffice to say there are many of us that do not consider third-party OS add-ons, such as installable file systems, to be _part of_ the OS. The OS depends on such things — file systems, video drivers, shell extensions, etc. — but they are not part of the OS per se any more than an application is part of the OS or your computer. YMMV. Pete