Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Aug 2000 05:09:06 +0100 (GMT) | From | Mo McKinlay <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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# But the is a perfect exampe of something that can already be done # today in userland -- in this inctance making cp aware of tar.gz files # and their internals. Obviously you might want to do this in an # external library or something which reads common configuration files # and then load handlers based of file extension or something...
Yes, but then you've got to do this for everything you want to have support it (just *how* many unix utilities are there out there?)... doing it at a lower level provides uniform support (and hence less confusion for Joe User), without requiring mass-modification.
-- 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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