Re: Request: Test suite for EFS.

[Norman Stevens <norman arcady u-net com>]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 u07ih@abdn.ac.uk wrote:

> > Why don't we just store compound documents as directories? The files
> > in this directory would be the individual components of this document.
> > If they themselves were compound documents they would, of course, be
> > subdirectories rather than files. 
> 
> This is what efs does, execpt it's only one file.
> 
Why _must_ it be one file?

> > We could always offer the option of storing the document as a (zipped)
> > tar archive, but this would lose the search capabilities that some
> > previous poster found desirable. In this case I would envisage untarring
> > the file when it is opened and re-tarring it when the document is finally
> > closed and unloaded from whatever application is being used to manipulate
> > it.
> 
> And what if one of the components is a 30meg mpg? Thats going to take one hell
> of a long time if you only want to change 3 lines in another file...
> untar
> change 3 lines
> retar.

If you choose to store it in a directory rather than a file then you don't
have to do this. 

Norman