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- From: rahim@g-spot.redcat.org.uk (Rahim Nathwani)
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- Subject: Re: Future (post E 2.0) idea
- Date: 6 May 1996 14:01:09 +0100
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- Eh? Didn't the guy ask how you'd do it WITHOUT a second file? And what have
- seek times got to do with it?
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- In article <4mjn4f$bj1@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, MartiYD <martiyd@aol.com> wrote:
- >: )But how would you encode the resource fork on VFAT? AFAIK, there's no
- >: )file type information in VFAT (other than the extension :-)). I think
- >: )you'd still need a second file. Correct me if I'm wrong; I don't know
- >: )all that much about VFAT.
- >
- >Very easily. They make a second file with the same name, but it starts
- >with a %, and then the rest of the name follows. The only prob is if they
- >could speed up the seek time on PC drives.
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