| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Is it save to append some data at end of the binary firebird database file? |
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| Author | Tim Ward |
| Post date | 2015-12-04T08:59:22Z |
On 04/12/2015 00:07, Christian Gütter
news@... [firebird-support] wrote:
There are no restrictions doing it properly with resources - you don't have to just use the VERSIONINFO resource (although you should, as vast numbers of other tools understand it), you can add whatever custom resources you like.> In Windows this is not an abuse, executable files have
> provision for version metadata ("resource") and you're supposed
> to use it properly. Pity this doesn't apply portably to all file types, innit.
True, but if you just append the info to the exe file, it is an abuse ;-)
And there are no restrictions with regard to the information you want
to store.
-- Tim Ward