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Re: ProBLOAD (a DOS 3.3 tiny extension)

From ol.sc@web.de (Oliver Schmidt)
Newsgroups comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Subject Re: ProBLOAD (a DOS 3.3 tiny extension)
Date 2017-08-01 08:00 +0000
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Hi Hugh,

>To preserve those ProDOS attributes on Windows, I imagine that someone 
>would need to do something like AppleDouble, which would complicate 
>coding. Ciderpress modifies the file names to preserve attributes, but 
>that is really just a work-around. Too bad Windows doesn't support XATTR 
>(yet).


On NTFS you have Alternate Data Streams which can be used - and are
actually used
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Alternate_data_streams_.28ADS.29)
- to hold extended attributes.

Regards,
Oliver

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ProBLOAD (a DOS 3.3 tiny extension) Benoit0123 <bgilon@free.fr> - 2017-07-30 20:26 +0000
  Re: ProBLOAD (a DOS 3.3 tiny extension) Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-30 18:02 -0500
    Re: ProBLOAD (a DOS 3.3 tiny extension) Benoit0123 <bgilon@free.fr> - 2017-07-31 05:49 +0000
      Re: ProBLOAD (a DOS 3.3 tiny extension) Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net> - 2017-08-01 00:05 -0500
        Re: ProBLOAD (a DOS 3.3 tiny extension) ol.sc@web.de (Oliver Schmidt) - 2017-08-01 08:00 +0000
        Re: ProBLOAD (a DOS 3.3 tiny extension) Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2017-08-01 13:59 -0500
          Re: ProBLOAD (a DOS 3.3 tiny extension) Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net> - 2017-08-02 01:50 -0500
            Re: ProBLOAD (a DOS 3.3 tiny extension) Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2017-08-02 12:00 -0500
          Re: ProBLOAD (a DOS 3.3 tiny extension) Nick Westgate <nick.westgate@gmail.com> - 2017-08-02 15:22 -0700

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