Re: Supporting arbitrary file attributes

..... 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.

>From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>

>You can read the POSIX 1003.1-2001 spec online at:
>http://www.UNIX-systems.org/version3/online.html

>Registration is required, the terms are here:
>http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/terms.htm


>> 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/

supports POSIX.1-2001 extended headers and you should be aware of
this fact as you are on the opengroup standards mailing list where 
the implementation of star has been discussed in mid 2001...



Joerg

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