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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Tags on disks ?
Message-ID: <32369@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Jun 89 15:01:02 GMT
References: <55343@linus.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <55343@linus.UUCP> keough@mbunix.mitre.org (Keough) writes:
>Would anyone know the correct way to ask if a disk has file tags? I know
>that Apple no longer supports tags; and I know how to read and write
>the tag bytes IF THEY ARE THERE. How can I tell if they are? And of
>course, Apple would want me to qualify my question by asking if this
>can be done so as to be "compatible" with what's out there now - and likely
>to be out there in the future.

I don't know the answer to your question, but I would like to point out that
in several versions of the system, even though tags were technically supported,
that they weren't always accurate.

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