Re: file to blob

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On Tuesday 03 October 2006 14:58, Richard Lynch wrote:
>On old old Mac OS on which PHP probably doesn't even run, you had the
>file DATA fork and the file RESOURCE fork where your question would,
>in theory, make sense...

Forks are not widely used much these days, but they still exist. HFS 
still supports forks on Mac OS X. Windows NTFS also supports forks, but 
calls them "alternate data streams." Many other systems support forks 
as well; a partial list can be found in the middle of this article: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(filesystem)

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