Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:01:46 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: 20 years without semantic innovation is enough |
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On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Hans Reiser wrote: > > When you cat mydoc.doc, it should come out with delimiters separating > > the files according to some arbitrary syntax, that way it can all work. > > Alexander Viro wrote: > > Hrrrmmmm... No offence, but... where did it come from? Some demented > > LISPer? > > Yes, we know which one too :-)
I didn't ;-)
> > You *do* realize that such suggestion implies quoting scheme, > > right? > > It's not as inefficient as you think. > Instead of naive quoting, say `\' before every delimiter and `\' itself, > think like this: > > Each read-in block is quoted by a header saying "this next N bytes is > taken literally", followed by the unquoted data for N bytes.
It's called 'tar' and we are back in square 0 ;-)
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