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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: Oli
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2021-09-15 12:53:00
subject: Re: filebox

Hi Oli,

On 2021-09-15 11:38:25, you wrote to Tommi Koivula:

 TK>> I understand this filebox thing so that if something is put into a
 TK>> filebox once, it cannot be changed. Any program can read and delete
 TK>> it any time. So HPT has to create more and more arcmail bundles.

 Ol> How is that different to arcmail bundles referenced in a FLO file?

Access to files in a regular BSO directory is strictly regulated through the use of lock files (*.csy, *.bsy). So different programs won't access the same files at the same time. There is no such standard for fileboxes.

 TK>> I recommend 'packer none' for filebox links. :)

 Ol> I always recommend uncompressed PKTs. binkp can compress with gzip and
 Ol> bzip2.

I recommend not using fileboxes at all. ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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