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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:12 May 2000 at 09:56:53
Subject:Re: WooooHoooo! But... ;)

Michael Carter said,

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:neil@wire.net.uk]

>>However, some mixed Audio/Video CDs use a strange format that none of
>>the Amiga CD filesystems can handle. This uses two files for each video
>>clip, both apparently having the same name.

> Sorry if this is thick - but what advantage is having two files of the same
> clip?

The two files are different. A large file containing the video stream
and a much smaller file. It's a similar setup to the Mac's data and
resource forks (or the Amiga's .info files) except both files appear
with the same name to every Amiga CDFS.

Neil


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