some problems for an introductory python test

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Aug 12 21:28:18 EDT 2021


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


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