file attributes

[LEWIS WILLIAM M JR]

>>But does SCO's product allow you to click on the icon that represents
>>the 1/4 inch cartridge tape drive, to automatically select tar or cpio
>>(or whatever) for reading the tape?

Whoever wrote this forgot the fundamental theorem of programming:

	"Programs designed to do things FOR the user inevitably
		 will do things TO the user."

See some of the "helpful" features in BSD (csh, vi, ls, etc.) for examples.