Chris Dukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 6 Jan 2002 01:40:51 +0000: > 2) I see a lack of consensus about what sort of metadata should be > grafted onto files, yet I already see questionable arbitrary > limits appearing. Perhaps some of the advocates could make > references to userspace rich file format APIs that provide the > functionality you seek.
Since the Be site is out of business, here's a link to another web page with the documentation on using attributes: http://bang.dhs.org/be/bebook/The%20Storage%20Kit/AttrFuncs.html There are other related pages for indices, and more importantly, queries (note they have convenience functions for building the expression which selects files, but under the hood it boils down to a string in the query language, which the file system parses): http://bang.dhs.org/be/bebook/The%20Storage%20Kit/Query.html - Alex
