Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!brianw
From: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Extended files & GS/OS
Summary: Suggestion
Message-ID: <5802@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 89 18:08:11 GMT
References: <8905201127.AA24211@obsolete.UUCP>
Reply-To: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <8905201127.AA24211@obsolete.UUCP> delton@pro-carolina.UUCP (Don Elton) writes:
>Network Comment: to #2837 by obsolete!pro-angmar!pro-beagle!jerryk
>Re: How will I denote a locked file in ECP16 if it's a forked file.  There
>will be 3 columns of special characters.  Currently there are two where *
>means locked and + means backup needed.  i.e.
>
>^+*     FILENAME

Perhaps you don't need to add a character, but just combine forked files
with an existing column to have more meaning. For example, ' ' and '*'
refer to an unlocked and locked non-forked file, respectively. You could
choose TWO other characters to represent unlocked and locked FORKED
files. This is just a suggestion for an alternative solution, it may
prove to be too confusing, depending upon what characters are used. Of
course, the column for backup could also be mutated similarly.

+ 	UNLOCKED
+*	LOCKED
+f	UNLOCK.FORKED
+F	LOCKED.FORKED

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