Re: NTFS-like streams?

Mo McKinlay (mmckinlay@gnu.org)
Sat, 12 Aug 2000 09:18:54 +0100 (GMT)

# 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).

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Mo McKinlay             Chief Software Architect          inter/open Labs
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