[vorbis] Unix media system

[Patrik Rådman]

Tony Arcieri <tarcieri at gjhsnews.com> wrote:
> On 15 May 2000 09:43:52 David Balazic <david.balazic at uni-mb.si> wrote:
>> What you're talking about are Amiga DataTypes(tm). It's a dream !
>> Install a PNG-datatype driver and now all of your apps(*) support
>> PNG images !
>> It works also with audio files, text files, animations , hypertext
>> documents etc ...
> 
> Right, this is exactly what I'm talking about [snip]

I had written a fairly long answer to this but lost it in a freak editor
accident, and I don't feel like retyping it all... :P

So I'll just summarize that I agree, and an interesting design to look at is the
Amiga's XPR-libraries (External File Transfer Protocols), the docs for which
I've put online here: http://infa.abo.fi/~patrik/DocXProtocol.txt


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