Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Jul 1999 02:39:57 -0400 (EDT) | From | Chuck Hemker <> | Subject | Compound Documents |
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I apologize for continuing this discussion and especially if this has already been suggested:
How about having a bit somewhere in the directory entry or inode that says that this directory is really a compound document.
Then you could modify ls to use a different character when you use the -F or --classify options, and to only show the directory entry unless you explicitly specify compound_document/*.
Modify backup and possibly tar to save the bit.
And modify GUI's and mail packages could then recognize it as a compound document.
I know some mail packages on the Mac already can send Mac files, I've received Word files from friends. It's usually an attachment with two attachments in it and I have to remember to get the data fork.
And if some was trying to use a compound document on a platform that didn't support this, it could be stored in a normal directory.
The biggest problem I see with trying to do something too different on Linux is that most of the people who write Linux applications want them to be portable and if the other platforms don't support a new feature, they won't use it.
BTW: I havn't heard a description of what the people in Redmond are doing with this. One reason to do something like this would be to make it easy for the samba and the wine people and also for people who are porting applications to Linux.
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