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- >>>>> "Brad" == Brad Midgley <brad@pht.com> writes:
-
- Brad> hello... desktop representation is out of the question (too
- Brad> different for everybody), but executor should at least put
- Brad> its resource forks in a subdirectory without mangling the
- Brad> name. Other schemes could depend on softlinks to that
- Brad> directory. (would only have to be fixed up when folders
- Brad> were created) Mangling the name in the current directory is
- Brad> ugly.
-
- The problem is that the Apple Double spec. is an incredibly bad
- specification, but rather than go our own way, we adhere to it. There
- are actually a few other Mac connectivity tools that adhere to the
- spec. as written and Executor will interact with them correctly (off
- the top of my head I think InterCon has a product that does this and I
- think Paul Hargrove's HFS Linux filesystem can create in-spec
- AppleDouble names).
-
- Brad> The easy road to get executor to deal with a network on a
- Brad> netatalk-supported host will be to depend on kernel DDP and
- Brad> link in the netatalk libs. so why not use a compatible
- Brad> naming scheme now and avoid the headache later?
-
- Yes and no. We could make a very quick hack to support the netatalk
- style names and have considered doing it at least for our own internal
- use (Cotton uses netatalk) but have so far resisted. I think Cotton
- plans on writing a little script that will recursively convert a
- directory and its children in either direction between the netatalk
- naming convention to the AppleDouble naming convention. That will be
- useful to him and perhaps to many of you out there as well.
-
- Internally Executor and netatalk both use the AppleDouble file format;
- it's only the naming where they deviate from the spec.
-
- Brad> btw, ardi's bugs/feedback page is broken. anyone there?
-
- Send e-mail to "webmaster@ardi.com" and cc it to "bugs@ardi.com" with
- more detail and we'll get it fixed ASAP. We have received a few bug
- reports here and there so we assumed it was working.
-
- Brad> On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, David E. Hollingsworth wrote:
-
- >> In article
- >> <Pine.LNX.3.91.951012081238.1368B-100000@exodus.pht.com> Brad
- >> Midgley <junkmail@pht.com> writes: > I'm not sure if this has
- >> come up yet, but since executor doesn't have > network support,
- >> could it at least support the netatalk method of keeping >
- >> resource forks in a .AppleDouble directory? (how about a
- >> non-defaulted > command-line option?)
- >>
- >> Of course, CAP aufs uses .resource directories, Helios
- >> EtherShare and IPT uShare use .rsrc directories, Xinet KA-Share
- >> uses .HSResource directories, and Pacer PacerShare uses
- >> afp_resource directories.
- >>
- >> There are corresponding differences for desktop representation.
- >> Many of these systems also appear to have files or directories
- >> for storing finder information. Fun, eh?
-
- Brad> brad@pht.com
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