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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata |
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Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:22:42 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Robert Collins <address@hidden>
> I think you've missed the point. The resource fork is structured data,
> that arch could meaningfully interpret, diff, merge and the like. To dno
> that on apple, system calls can be used. To interoperate with non-mac's,
> and to store such versioned data in an arch archive (even on a mac) a
> encoding standard needs to be chosen. For that standard, a layer will
> need to exist when running on non-macs - and there are applesingle
> libraries around...
You raise the interesting point that merging, say, a mime-encoded
representation of a multi-fork file is not in the least bit assured to
produce a valid mime-encoding of a multi-fork file.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, (continued)
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Robert Collins, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Paul Snively, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Paul Snively, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Paul Snively, 2003/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Paul Snively, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata,
Tom Lord <=
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Ruminations on Arch Desiderata, Tom Lord, 2003/09/17
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