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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [OT] Any plans to keep up with longhorn?
From:       Christophe Devriese <oelewapperke () ulyssis ! org>
Date:       2003-11-03 3:33:33
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On Sunday 02 November 2003 00:57, Tim Jansen wrote:
> And it can not really compare with what WinFS does, for instance it would
> not be able to find all sound files in the LAN that 'Barry White' created
> between 1970-1980.

Which winFS only would be able to do if you were to set the properties on 
every file in your lan (I'm not going to ...).

> Here's a description of how byte-stream-based files are handled in WinFS:
> http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/lhsdk/winfs/confilepromotion.aspx

Sounds a lot like extended attributes to me ... Except for perhaps indexing 
based on a property other than the file name.

 
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