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- MartiYD wrote:
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- > : )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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- That involves creating a second file :).
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- An alternative approach is to do as IBM did when storing OS/2 Extra Attributes
- on a FAT file system:
- Create a file with an illegal name and store all information in that file.
- You do still have to crete an extra file, but only one (or one for each dir).
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- Regards, writing in non-native language...
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