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Subject: Re: FInal Project
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:32:54 -0800
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > For transferring file metadata to another node, is it sent in the
  > format it is written to file(including [metadata])

Yes.  The file metadata is 7 lines of ASCII text (with lines
terminated with <CR><LF>).  The 7 lines are:

    [metadata]
    FileName=...
    FileSize=...
    SHA1=...
    Nonce=...
    Keywords=...
    Bit-vector=...

  > or do they have individual field sizes?

I'm not sure what you meant by "individual field sizes".
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