Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API. | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:07:38 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > > pretty inconvenient. I can pass a Word file around easily -- passing > > > around our free-software documents ought to be just as convenient. > > > > So use flat files like normal people. > > You wanted directories before. > Please make up your mind -- or explain it. > > If you say "manually invoke tar" you missed the point :-)
If I want to work on a collection of items on disk then I write them to a set of files, when I've finished I archive them up and bundle them. Thats always been how things work. Even on a Mac.. the other fork on a mac is really limited in its options.
Alan
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