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[Mike McMahon <MMCM at MIT-AI>]

    Date: 4 January 1982 18:10-EST
    From: Richard M. Stallman <RMS at MIT-AI>
    Or should file systems not be allowed to permit
    values of random properties to be anything but strings?
That's right.  That's the way it works here.  I'd be surprised to learn that
you have implemented permanent storage of arbitrary data types for your file
system and don't store them as strings internally anyway.