Re: [toolbox] Extended Attributes

[Maxwell, A. R <ada...@pn...>]

> On Jun 24, 2005, at 03:55, J=E9r=F4me Laurens wrote:
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>> I don't know how many developers are there but at least  we can =20
>> start a discussion.
>>
>> Tiger now supports xattrs BSD feature, and it is -really- a major =20
>> step forward.
>> To play with xattrs, you can download
>> <http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~rpointon/osx/xattr.html>
>> I don't know how far those xattrs are linked to their file when =20
>> moving around the internet but things are promising.

I've tried setting xattrs and moving a text file onto an NFS volume; =20
the attributes were preserved when moving them back and forth, which =20
is good.  However, opening and saving the file in TextEdit lost the =20
attributes, which is unfortunate.

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