RE: Forks Tangent (was RE: [ProgSoc] jpg file)

[Jedd <jedd@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

 CK writes :

 ] Anand writes :
 ]
 ] > I don't see how striping the signature would be of any use myself.
 ]
 ] <shrug>  There may be times when you want an unadulterated text file.
 ] Perhaps if you have HTML which needs to look the way it was intended.

 Maybe I've missed the point of HTML (I didn't get to go listen to Bill's
 talk today), but isn't the idea that it's up to the reader how HTML looks,
 not the author?  Alternatively - isn't that why there's those 'best viewed with a
 computer and browser' graphics?  Not that I'm partisan about this topic.  :)

 Anyways . . I'm still confused about the whole method of striping a file.
 I can stripe hard disks.  And I striped my car once, against the side of
 a Jaguar, but the owner was really nice about it, which was only fair, you
 see, since it was his fault.  Honest it was.

 Can someone explain what a file would actually look like, that was
 thusly striped?  Any info on why (not how) MS decided to implement
 something similar under NT would be interesting, too.

 Maybe I'm missing something - but it seems to me that if you want
 two or more bits of disparate data - you stick 'em in separate files,
 and keep them near each other.

 Jedd.
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