On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Jeff Gribbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to propose that, rather than introducing a new record-type, it > would be more friendly to introduce a dummy file, placed last in the > archive, which contains all the desired tracking information. In addition > to preserving backward-compatibility, this solution would be more amenable > to future, "improvements" as space would be, effectively, unlimited. When I was looking at adding an index, the idea was indeed to make it a dummy file at the end. You can overwrite that when you add files to the archive, and the time stamp of the dummy file would correspond to the last update of the archive. But never had time to write the wrapper to maintain that index. Part of that code is here now: http://rvdheij.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/listing-the-contents-of-vmarc/ -Rob
