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Re: how to get binaries on a file server to work?



On Wed, 9 Aug 1995 15:53:23 +0000  JMAH@isvr.soton.ac.uk wrote:

> 
> I'm afraid that what you're trying to do simply won't work. There is no
> way to read the server's Mac namespace information (AFAIK), which
> includes the type/creator and resource fork, via NFS. You can change the
> type/creator from Executor if you can write to the files, because under
> Executor that's simply stored in another file, but that has nothing to
> do with the "real" information stored on the server.

that's a bummer.

well, I will try and find a work around (now that the source of the
problem has confirmation in triplicate).  

oh well,
Jason