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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] skulker
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:21:00 -0600
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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>> t+l -> T (or something else)
> 
> Just trying to learn.
> Is there any big deal I'm missing in preserving
> the number of characters?
> We have a place for +a and a place for +l,
> why not just another place for +t ?

I was following the rationale that the first character shows the file
type (DMDIR, DMAPPEND, etc) and the second shows the file mode
(DMEXCL, DMTMP).

while a file cannot be an append-only directory it is entirely
possible for it to be DMEXCL|DMTMP...

maybe packing characters/runes together in bitfield-like fashion
(charfields?) isn't such a good idea after all :)

andrey