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Author: a
Date: May 30, 2008 12:08
... seen this question come up lots of times when introducing fs-based interfaces to people. When we had some off-shore devs to bring up to speed, they kept coming back to it: "so can we just define a protocol to put all these streams in one file?". I tried to explaing that having them as distinct files *was* that protocol, but it never stuck. I wish I'd had this explanation then. Anthony
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