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Re: Executor w/ netatalk



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In article <4fh98c$ma6@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>,
	namh@wintermute.resnet.cornell.edu (Hyung-song Nam) writes:
>
>hello,
>	I have netatalk package running on my machine, so I 
>was able to mount my disk on a mac and copy files to my 
>linux disk. Is there any way to use these files with executor?
>It seems afpd keeps two separate files for a mac file. (data
>and resource fork in separate files)


both executor and netatalk use separate files for resource forks of
files.  unfortunately, they do things differently.  the obvious
difference is netatalks use of the .AppleDouble directory for resource
fork storage and executors use of the %filename storage.  if you run
the actuall files through something like 'od' (octal dump) on a unix
system you'll see that even the structure of these files is
different.  personally, i prefer the use of the .AppleDouble files as
it eliminates the plethora of %filenames in directories i often access
through shell.

in any event, there is a kludgy way to get things to work.  basically,
you need to get a resource fork written for both executor and
netatalk.  it's much easier to get the netatalk resource fork written
since it just uses suffix mapping for that purpose.  so, in general,
if i want to work with an MS word file on my linux box using executor
i will binhex that file on the mac, copy it to my linux machine either
using FTP or netatalk (usually netatalk) and then unhex it using
CompactPro under executor saving the file such that it is named with a
.doc extension.

under linux this works nicely. you are not limited by filename length
so you can essentially use filenames with spaces and netatalk won't
care.  both test.doc and 'this is a test.doc' will both be seen as MS 
Word files via netatalk.

well, that's my $0.02,

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