> Hans Reiser wrote:
> > When you cat mydoc.doc, it should come out with delimiters separating
> > the files according to some arbitrary syntax, that way it can all work.
>
> Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Hrrrmmmm... No offence, but... where did it come from? Some demented
> > LISPer?
>
> Yes, we know which one too :-)
I didn't ;-)
> > You *do* realize that such suggestion implies quoting scheme,
> > right?
>
> It's not as inefficient as you think.
> Instead of naive quoting, say `\' before every delimiter and `\' itself,
> think like this:
>
> Each read-in block is quoted by a header saying "this next N bytes is
> taken literally", followed by the unquoted data for N bytes.
It's called 'tar' and we are back in square 0 ;-)
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