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SubjectRe: Resource forks and such
allbery@kf8nh.apk.net wrote:
> That said, the problem with storing the metadata with the file is that
> on a multiuser OS different people may want different associations,
> different icons, etc.for the same file. So it has to be stored per
> user, not per file.

This comes up often so I'll drop in the obvious...
you'd store the file _type_ in the metadata section.

I don't think that needs to vary between users.

-- Jamie

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