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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!hd0258!gvh
- From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Subject: Re: 3.0 Mac Floppy Copy Less Than Useful
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.203123.2171@metrosoft.com>
- Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com
- Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Organization: Metrosoft
- References: <1992Nov22.035136.15646@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:31:23 GMT
- Lines: 53
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- In article <1992Nov22.035136.15646@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>
- henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton) writes:
- >
- > In 3.0, I notice that the ``system'' seems to look only at the Data
- > Fork of Macintosh files. This is less than useful for Macintosh
- > format Type 1 font files, which in almost all cases have their
- > useful data in the resource fork of the file.
- >
- > Changing directory to the Macintosh floppy and doing ls -1 shows
- > the Type 1 font to be of length zero, when in fact there's plenty
- > of font data hiding in there somewhere.
- >
- > So, one of the major potential uses for 3.0 reading Macintosh floppy
- > disks is nullified by this behavior. I've looked in the 3.0 release
- > notes and didn't see anything mentioned about 3.0 and Macintsoh
- > floppy disks, except for the watning about writing lots of small
- > files.
- >
- > Anybody have any great ideas how to deal with these issues in 3.0?
- > I hope FloppyWorks is OK on 3.0, because I can't seem to do without
- > using FloppyWorks.
- >
-
- There is a way to read it, which I've posted before. You can open() the
- resource fork of a data file 'foo' by opening 'foo.#rsrc#'. Note that this has
- to happen while the Mac filesystem is mounted. Copying via the file viewer to a
- NeXT filesystem loses the resource fork. You can however use cp from the
- command line to copy the resource fork onto a NeXT filesystem.
-
- The Font Installer and Sound Importer of MetroTools take this into account and
- look for the ".#rsrc#" file (resource fork). They also look for resource forks
- in MacBinary files (useful for Mac fonts downloaded straight to a NeXT from an
- online service) and for "flat" resource forks brought over by FloppyWorks.
-
- FloppyWorks runs OK under 3.0, but I understand it is no longer supported by
- DIT (or at least their desire is to phase it out). If you ever install
- FloppyWorks under 3.0 (or a system that is upgraded to 3.0), beware that you
- will have to remove the macintosh.fs from /usr/fileystems before you can
- directly mount a floppy via NeXTSTEP.
-
- As an aside we have recently modified Font Installer to generate ascii-encoded
- Type 1 fonts from binary-encoded ones, and enhanced its conversion
- capabilities. It now successfully converts 98% of all 'unusable' fonts we have
- ever been sent.
-
- We also have our NiteLite screen saver module of MetroTools running while the
- Login Window is up, in house. We will be releasing the upgrade soon.
-
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