On Wed, 02 Sep 1998 14:22:01 -0700, Hans Reiser <reiser@idiom.com>
said:
> I think we might be less far apart than we are aware of.
> Structured Storage is this Microsoft thing used for aggregating
> objects into files. Things like word processors and spreadsheets
> use it for storing complex documents/spreadsheets/other_objects with
> lots of subcomponents in a single file. It is part of OLE.
Both Gnome and KDE are adopting MIME as their multi-document storage
model. It already exists, it is already standardised, and there are
plenty of libraries around which can deal with it.
> cp and tar can handle directories. Changing the utility programs to
> handle directories that if read resolve to directory/default is a
> lot less work than implementing the functional equivalent of
> Structured Storage. Actually, I think they will simply never notice
> that the directory can be read, and that will be acceptable.
But we _can't_ always do that. Linux in a network of other Unix
machines cannot rely on everybody upgrading all of their tools! Just
leave the semantics as they are and everybody will play well together.
--Stephen
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