Re: file to blob

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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake University Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave +1 515 271-4540 Des Moines IA 50311 USA