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On 2009.02.24 16:48, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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[snip] |
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> PN and PV are metadata, same as EAPI. |
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> Ciaran McCreesh |
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So we made a mistake with PN and PV and may compound it with EAPI. |
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How long before we *must* have other pieces of information in the |
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filename? |
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When will the filename get so long as to become unwhieldy ? |
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Lets fix it properly now since it will be much more painful to put an |
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extendable solution in place later. |
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It reminds me of other hacks in the history of the PC which we would do |
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well not to repeat. |
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e.g. the MSDOS Partition Table, the Extended Partition, the High Memory |
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Area. |
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Regards, |
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Roy Bamford |
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