[ge-talk] Files as Messages

[Jonathan Thompson]

/me imagines loading a several gig movie BMessage and running the unflatten
method (escapes mind at the moment what it's called) and sending it via
PostMessage... :)

Nothing like the present to plan your future to study the past, which keeps
getting larger at the same rate future appears at its present rate. -
Jonathan Thompson 23/06/05 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:glasselevator-talk-bounces at bug-br.org.br] On Behalf 
> Of Danny Robson
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 5:37 PM
> To: glasselevator-talk at bug-br.org.br
> Subject: [ge-talk] Files as Messages
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Long time with no activity on the list, so I thought I'd put 
> forward a 
> quick and random thought. What if we treated all files as flattened 
> BMessages? Attributes could be thought of as fields of the 
> message and 
> the data could be considered to be a special, 'magic' field.
> 
> I honestly have no idea what this could be useful for, but it sounded 
> interesting after 5 hours of driving and there hasn't been 
> any posting 
> for a while :)
> 
> - Danny
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