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Mar 20, 2017 at 10:17 history edited CommunityBot
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May 13, 2011 at 19:03 comment added Daniel Beck And on the other end of the spectrum, we have people complaining about system-specific metadata being forcibly included in archives.
May 13, 2011 at 18:32 comment added Byron Whitlock Go back to SO! Too technical! (just kidding of course ;)
May 13, 2011 at 17:27 comment added Marc Gravell @Jens didn't know that (assuming it is correct, of course)
May 13, 2011 at 11:03 comment added Marc Gravell @msw - they don't mutate at will; simply - there can be more than one hunk of data associated with a single file record. Almost always there is exactly one (it is very rarely used), but...
May 13, 2011 at 10:56 comment added msw New to me and bizarre. When is a file not a file? When its contents mutate at will. I've heard of worse misfeatures, but not many.
May 13, 2011 at 9:30 comment added kizzx2 Wow, this is totally new knowledge to me.
May 13, 2011 at 6:28 history answered Marc Gravell CC BY-SA 3.0