> On 21 Apr 2016, at 01:00, Sampsa Laine <samp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On 21 Apr 2016, at 00:56, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote: > >> This is not a "small" thing. This would be a huge effort if really wanted >> this to become ubiquitous. And I still fail to see the point. We've >> basically established that binary files will still not work, so we're down >> to text files. Why all these extra steps for something that can be done with >> already existing tools? >> > > Binary files COULD work if we store the file metadata in another file.. > > The structure of the metadata file would depend on the host OS but SIMH > doesn’t
I meant the guest OS determines the structure of the metadata. SIMH just knows that it goes into an associated file, just like the resource forks in “netatalk” - the UNIX box running the AFP server doesn’t give a crap, it just stores the extra Mac OS stuff in another file. sampsa
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