On 13/08/21 5:52 am, Grant Edwards wrote:
I think what he's talking about is allowing the user to attach arbitrary _metadata_ to the file ... IOW, something similar to the > "resource fork" that MacOS used to have.
The resource fork was used for more than just metadata, it was often the entire contents of the file. Applications had all the code in there, for example -- the data fork of an application was usually empty. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list