Re: Moving away from app-centric mimetypes (e.g. kword)
Dave Leigh <[email protected]>
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On Tuesday 14 May 2002 08:58, John Summerfield wrote: > > Am Dienstag 14 Mai 2002 15:37 schrieb John Summerfield: > > > Move the disk to another computer, all that information goes with it. > > > > Okay, but: Sending the file via email, and the information is lost, isn't > > it? > > So? Of course it's lost if you don't send the metadata. But, you pack it up > with GNU tar on OS/2 and sent that, and the metadata goes too. So... This is information that's so tightly bound to the file that it makes sense to put it IN the file. IOW, this is rightly a property of the file, not the filesystem. This is already done for many filetypes, and any XML file should allow it. -- Dave Leigh, Consulting Systems Analyst Cratchit.org http://www.cratchit.org 864-427-7008 (direct) AIM or Yahoo!: leighdf MSN: [email protected] ICQ: 37839381 It looks like it's up to me to save our skins. Get into that garbage chute, flyboy! -- Princess Leia Organa