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Re: Future (post E 2.0) idea



Eh?  Didn't the guy ask how you'd do it WITHOUT a second file?  And what have
seek times got to do with it?

In article <4mjn4f$bj1@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, MartiYD <martiyd@aol.com> wrote:
>: )But how would you encode the resource fork on VFAT? AFAIK, there's no
>: )file type information in VFAT (other than the extension :-)). I think 
>: )you'd still need a second file. Correct me if I'm wrong; I don't know 
>: )all that much about VFAT.
>
>Very easily. They make a second file with the same name, but it starts
>with a %, and then the rest of the name follows. The only prob is if they
>could speed up the seek time on PC drives.




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