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- From: peter@ncrpda.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis)
- Subject: Re: RFC: MacBinary extension to support folders
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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 12:25:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec8.193851.8070@netcom.com>, leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard
- Rosenthol) wrote:
-
- > True, they are broken - but what do you tell the end user when he
- > just downloaded a huge file (at 1200/2400 baud) and it's toast becuase he
- > used a "broken" program (say, White Knight), that never expected to see
- > comments since no one actually used them until recently (to my knowledge
- > NONE of the standard Mac telecom software sends or receives comments).
-
- The point here is that they don't have to support the feature, just decode
- the file as specified in the MacBinary II spec. All that means is reading
- two ints from the header (the comment length and extended header length),
- rounding them both up to 128 byte multiples and reading and ignoring that
- many bytes after the header. Not exactly stressful coding (ok, ok, so
- early versions of FTPd didn't handle extended headers, it does now though
- :-).
-
- Of course, I'm more than happy to have the commercial programs not support
- MacBinary comments... it makes Fetch & FTPd look better :-)
-
- Have fun all,
- Peter.
- PS: I got almost zero comments (except for some useful comments by Leonard)
- back on extending MacBinary to handle folders, so I guess I'll just figure
- out what will do what I want and go with that. I'm still tossing up going
- all the way and extending the spec to include crc's on both forks as well
- as folders...
-
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- Peter N Lewis <peter@ncrpda.curtin.edu.au> Ph: +61 9 368 2055
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