Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Aug 2000 09:18:54 +0100 (GMT) | From | Mo McKinlay <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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# This is why to deal with that kind of data it should be opened as forks # only -- this can't be made backward-compatible.
The point of the forks was to supply additional optional (and discardable) information that should be associated with a file. You're talking about fully-fledged structured storage, which *will* break backwards compatibility, and is something quite different, really (although the very basic principles are the same).
-- Mo McKinlay Chief Software Architect inter/open Labs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Key: pub 1024D/76A275F9 2000-07-22 Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay@gnu.org>
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