[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

David Jones osuvman50 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 11:37:04 EDT 2021


On Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 3:54:53 AM UTC-4, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> Trouble is, there are many binary file formats that do not map easily to a simple sequence of records (of whatever delimitation). Consider the IFF family of file formats, for example: these are built out of chunks, and certain chunk types can contain other chunks. 

Whatever happened to Compound Document Architecture (CDA)? It always struck me as an effort (now abandoned) toward an object oriented file structure.



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