Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API.

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 19:21:34 +0200


Alan Cox wrote:
> If some random linux compound file turns up on a VMS box Im screwed.

Duh, obviously it would be an industry standard format.
There's no argument about formats here.

> > pretty inconvenient. I can pass a Word file around easily -- passing
> > around our free-software documents ought to be just as convenient.
>
> So use flat files like normal people.

You wanted directories before.
Please make up your mind -- or explain it.

If you say "manually invoke tar" you missed the point :-)

-- Jamie

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