On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Andrzej Bialecki <[email protected]> wrote:

> So far the list of possible file names was relatively small and well-known,
> e.g. people knew that a prx file contained postings, and its size would
> indicate this or that. We are going to have dozens of codecs soon, and if I
> come up with a codec that creates, say, abc and xyz files then without
> knowing what they logically correspond to, it will be difficult to
> troubleshoot. Similarly, if I discover files abc and xyz in my Directory I
> should be able to tell whether they belong there.
>

I'm not sure about the latter part? this is not really possible unless
we make all of our codecs use "unique" extensions? Currently preflex
codec uses some of the same extensions as standard (e.g. .frq) for
example, but its definitely a different codec.


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