From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60708161045w662e51ablf3b2fd83a1a9a196@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:45:24 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] everything is a directory In-Reply-To: <46C47435.7060608@proweb.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_27093_29072262.1187286324914" References: <1187223167.452937.319060@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com> <3e1162e60708160701u66b064e3g5a611023a95137f9@mail.gmail.com> <46C47435.7060608@proweb.co.uk> Topicbox-Message-UUID: aa6d4e82-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_27093_29072262.1187286324914 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 8/16/07, maht wrote: > > > > Unix already has this, and their called extended attributes, and I > > hate them with a burning passion. Rsync, cp, any tool that > > manipulates files (tar for example) has to be able to capture this > > data, and just reading the file won't do it anymore. > > > > Oh and to make things more "fun" FreeBSD, Linux and Mac OS X at least > > have different ways of dealing with them, and max size limits etc. > > you forgot NTFS's version > > http://www.wikistc.org/wiki/Alternate_data_streams > > echo plain > t.xt > echo hidden > t.txt:hidden.txt > > %type t.txt > plain > % type t.txt:hidden.txt > The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. > > % notepad t.txt:hidden.txt > hidden So there we have it... all the major OSes I know of have turned files into directories already... *sigh* ------=_Part_27093_29072262.1187286324914 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

On 8/16/07, maht <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk> wrote:

> Unix already has this, and their called extended attributes, and I
> hate them with a burning passion.  Rsync, cp, any tool that
> manipulates files (tar for example) has to be able to capture this
> data, and just reading the file won't do it anymore.
>
> Oh and to make things more "fun" FreeBSD, Linux and Mac OS X at least
> have different ways of dealing with them, and max size limits etc.

you forgot NTFS's version

http://www.wikistc.org/wiki/Alternate_data_streams

echo plain > t.xt
echo hidden > t.txt:hidden.txt

%type t.txt
plain
% type t.txt:hidden.txt
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

% notepad t.txt:hidden.txt
hidden

So there we have it... all the major OSes I know of have turned files into directories already... *sigh*
 


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