Date   : Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:40:35 +0100
From   : info@... (Sprow)
Subject: Master ethernet upgrade

In article <B43C41F6C0D4466584D1D388B83B4640@...>,
   Mark Haysman <jumbos.bazzar@...> wrote:
> > "Mark Haysman" wrote:
> >> prefer to see the data stored at the end of a file, along with an 
> >> identifier
> >> string, for example...
> >>
> >> end of file-!METADATA!FFFF1900FFFF0823
> >
> > An NFS mounted on a Unix server stores the load/exec addresses as
> > eight additional bytes at the end of the file:

[snip]

> So if I were to impliment this method on DataCentre for Drive 5 direct to 
> USB saves, and get RamFS to add the .lxa extension with that data, that 
> would be the most "compatible" way of doing it? 

No, because that's just how RISC OS NFS might do it. For a USB stick, which
I assume is FAT formatted, would be read by RISC OS' DOSFS which stores
filetypes in a reserved field (which Windows usually zeros) and also can't
fit the full 64 bit load/exec addresses into the native catalogue format. It
also wouldn't take any special action on a filename ending in ",lxa",
Sprow.