From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Mon Oct 20 2003 - 11:33:11 PDT
Eckhart Köppen wrote:
>>If so, that would be a shame. Would it not be possible for ATA driver using
>>FAT to store Newt Soups as files?
>
>
> Newton soups are very flexible. They allow variable length, variable
> data type, variable index data storage. Even if this would be
> implemented on top of a regular file, you'd still need the code on the
> deskop, including applications using your code.
A single soup wouldn't be so useful, a store as a FAT file would be though.
> An easy way to do this is a FAT Transport. A FAT Transport could have
> two parts: One application that allows browsing of the FAT file system
> and transfer of files into the Inbox (tagged with the MIME type), and
> one "sending" part which would transfer items from a Newton application
> to the FAT file system.
Actually copying from the Inbox, and then to the application would be pretty
inefficient though. If the transport was more of just a "hook" that pulled
it directly out of the FAT world and then into the application...
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