RE: Folder Icons

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

If you get into the metadata stuff, you start to have the MAC #1 flaw. Data
forks. To copy a file over the internet with metadata intact, you have to
use a program like stuffit to copy it. Please do not go this direction. :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Tromey [mailto:tromey@cygnus.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 10:31 AM
> To: Andre-John Mas
> Subject: Re: Folder Icons
> 
> 
> >>>>> "Andre" == Andre-John Mas <ama@act.qc.ca> writes:
> 
> Andre> The approach would be to have a file '.icon' in the folder
> Andre> which would either be a reference to an icon or maybe even the
> Andre> icon itself.
> 
> Why not use metadata?
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
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