Re: HardPressed

[vagrant@vpnet.chi.il.us (Guy Umbright)]

Andy McFadden (fadden@uts.amdahl.com) scribbled:
: In article <C8yME1.6w4@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
: >   Here's a suggestion for some later time, Andy. Would it be possible,
: >or wise, to have HP produce some small auxiliary file on user request
: >(another Finder extra command) which is hidden from the Finder and
: >contains the complete catalog information for that subdirectory?

[snip snip}

: 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.

And will that file be compressed?   :)

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: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
: [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
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