Re: Supporting arbitrary file attributes

> From: Joerg Schilling <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:13:07 +0200 (MEST)
>
> >> Am I describing a free utility that already exists?
> 
> >Not as far as I know.  Nobody has had the time to work on this stuff yet.
> 
> Well star  ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/alpha/

Sorry, I'd forgotten about star's efforts in this area.  Does star
address all the issues he mentioned?  For example, what does it do for
ACLs on a Linux box?

> ..... again this 8 bit problem with your mailer.....
> 
> Please note that there are a lot of people in the world who 
> don't send spam but use 8 bit chars.

Lots of people send me 8-bit mail successfully.  I'll write to you
separately about this problem, as we needn't bother others about this.