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- In article <john.hendrikx.44q1@grafix.xs4all.nl> john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx) writes:
- >
- > When I come to think of it this doesn't seem all that hard to do and it would
- > probably not even slow down the filesystem. I mean, taking a peek at the first
- > 512 bytes as it is written shouldn't be that hard. The only trouble is that
- > 512 bytes might not be sufficient to make a FileID...
- >
- But that basically would be the same as having the contents of an
- .info file as the first block of EVERY file... Which I think is the basic
- idea on the Mac (I don't fully understand the "data" and "resource" forks but
- if the "resource" fork is a block at the start of the file that IDs the file
- type and the program that generated it...). I, personally, prefer files to be
- PURE files; not some hybrid that requires tricks to transfer to other users.
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