Re: HardPressed

[90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)]

In article <be5Y034Td44j00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, Andy McFadden writes...
> 
> The basic plan is to store uncompressed EOF, compressed EOF, create date,
> and mod date in the file.  If the last three don't match the values in the
> directory entry, we pitch the data.  Otherwise, we use the uncompressed EOF,
> filetype, and auxtype stored in the file.
> 
> Sort of Finder.Data ish.

    Wow, Finder.Data, Kanagaroo.Data and now HardPressed.Data files in
every folder!  :)  I'm glad Apple thought of the invisible bit,
otherwise I'd have very clogged windows.  :)  Rather than storing it in
a file, can you store that information in the first data block of a
compressed file?  HP can then read it straight off without having to
uncompress it.  The HardPressed.Data method is still probably the
fastest way though...
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