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[Mike McMahon <MMcM at MIT-AI>]

    Date: 17 December 1981 23:09-EST
    From: Richard M. Stallman <RMS at MIT-AI>
    I am planning to change the default definition of
    :MULTIPLE-FILE-PLISTS to work by means of sending a :PROPERTIES
    message to each pathname.
I think that at the same time you should change FS:MULTIPLE-FILE-PLISTS,
FS:FILE-PROPERTIES, FS:DIRECTORY-LIST, and perhaps OPEN to take an
option giving a list of desired indicators for the property list.  This
is a generalization of the :FAST and :NO-EXTRA-INFO options to
DIRECTORY-LIST.  MAKE-SYSTEM can then be changed to give only the ones
it wants to see.  If my metering of QFILE holds true for REMOTE, this
will enormously speed up MAKE-SYSTEM from LMFILE, assuming that you
won't be shadowing your new :MULTIPLE-FILE-PLISTS definition.