> I imagine that when storage became more plentiful OS developers became less interested in implementing solutions to problems of this nature and who can blame

> I imagine that when storage became more plentiful OS developers became less interested in implementing solutions to problems of this nature and who can blame them really. You say this like making an application this way is some difficult problem. The whole point of me pointing out that it was the way applications worked on a Mac in 1984 (or indeed any of a dozen other desktop OSs) is that it isn't actually difficult at all. The difficulty it appears to have on Linux is all artificially induced by the culture of Linux software development. > Linux is a tinkerers OS (that just happened to become popular for servers) and expecting it to change its stripes is asking a lot :-) I don't expect it to change. I've been hoping Linux people would see the light for 20 years and it hasn't changed. That doesn't mean I have to like it or pretend that it's a good idea.