Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:25:27 -0400, "graydon hoare" 
<address@hidden> said:

graydon> > Or have a completely different delimiter than space.  I've no idea
graydon> > what syntax you're imagining that basic_io.cc would handle...
graydon> 
graydon> it uses delimiters and a numeric byte count. [sNN:<NN bytes>].
graydon> that's why. it has 2 things going for it:
graydon> 
graydon>   - by having a number (thus requiring arithmetic) it says "hands off"
graydon>   - by having delimiters *and* a number there's a good chance we'll
graydon>     notice when the user sticks their fingers in it anyways.

This means that we would need commands to handle .mt-attrs instead of
having the user hack the file directly, does it not?  And in that
case, shouldn't it become a file in MT, say 'MT/attributes'?

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