On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:21:34PM +0100, Peter Ring wrote: > Not that it would be a general solution: NT/WIN2K/XP can actually attach > extra attribute/value pairs to a file. It gets stored natively in the > filesystem on NTFS. > > Anyway, I'd like to be able to ask the filesystem (or some such service) > about at least a MIME type and an encoding; these are inherent > characteristics of the file, and should be embedded in the file.
One can easily argue that informations stored in the filesystem, such as file attribute/value pairs are *outside* the file, and *not* embedded in the file. This basically means that most legacy filesystems will not store them, and most legacy tools will strip them, even when transfering across filesystems that support them. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) D�veloppeur Debian
