Re: [toolbox] Extended Attributes

[Maarten S. <maa...@xs...>]

On 6 Jul 2005, at 15:19, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

> On Jul 6, 2005, at 04:41, J=E9r=F4me Laurens wrote:

[on aliases]

>> This is not a portable solution. Aliases are mac specific.
>> A solution viable on other systems must also be considered
>
> Personally, I don't care about other systems, but if they must be =20
> considered for the mactextoolbox, why not add another piece of =20
> metadata?  Store a path and an alias in the plist.

I do care about other systems. I didn't get a Mac with my new job, I =20
my daily work now takes place on a Linux machine. Besides, even when =20
on a Mac alone, many non-mac specific pieces may touch the files =20
(CVS, subversion) that might break aliases. But indeed, a double =20
storage is fine.

[on character encodings]

>> Or an ascii name?
>
> If you can write into the byte stream without corrupting it...

I thought that initially we are only trying to retrieve the character =20=

encoding, and reading a byte stream doesn't do any harm. Once you =20
figure out the encoding, you can really manipulate the stream.

Maarten