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netatalk-style resource forks? (please? :)



hello...

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?)

I suppose since I have netatalk source I could recompile it to use
%name-style forks, but that's ugly--I suspect when linux is able to import
appleshares, it'll also represent resource forks in ".AppleDouble"  (also
netatalk comes with linux tools for compressing/decompressing which use
its scheme)

Although it's only halfway there (there isn't support for importing from
other macs yet), *boom* you'd have executor able to deal correctly with
files which are in turn exported on appleshare. 

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background: netatalk allows linux (and quite a few other unixes) to export
files and printers to an ethertalk network.  resource forks are emulated
by putting the fork, with the same name as the data fork, in a directory
".AppleDouble" (see http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/)

(we use it quite a lot to serve our www/ftp server to the macintosh group
here, it's extremely cool, I've even backed up macintosh files by burning
iso-9660 cdroms but with the .AppleDouble directories so I can pop it into
my linux box, export it to the macs, and have them see files with their 
types...)



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