Subject: Re: Structured Storage [was: Re: Inline Images??? ]
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 22 2001 - 18:22:16 CDT
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 06:01:02PM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> The most common solution to these problems is one that I pioneered
> while I was at Adobe is to use a "manifest" file (ala Java's JAR files, but
> in XML) to maintain the full complete metadata catalog of the archive and
> basically ignore ZIP's metadata system and filename limitations. I believe
> that OO is taking a similiar approach, but I haven't actually looked at
> their stuff.
OO is actually just using the JAR format (which is just ZIP).
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