Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API.
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:07:38 +0100 (BST)
> > > 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 :-)
If I want to work on a collection of items on disk then I write them to
a set of files, when I've finished I archive them up and bundle them. Thats
always been how things work. Even on a Mac.. the other fork on a mac is
really limited in its options.
Alan
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