On 09/12/14 21:13, Huge wrote:
On 2014-12-09, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Bob Henson
wrote:

If you use Windows you don't need to fall back on Linux - there's
nothing Windows won't do.

Here's a good example of something that Windows appears unable to do.
Under OS X, if I use e.g. the Finder to rename a file or move it to
another folder on the same volume, any application that has the file
open simply updates its user presentation of the file's name/location.
Even Word and Excel manage it (somewhat to my surprise).

That's an artefact of the underlying Unix O/S.


Not quite.

changing the name of open files is one thing, making sure the
application receives a signal to display the new name is rather more.

I've been fairly impressed that some linux distros mow have suitable
daemons that are doing this kind of housekeeping.


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