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Received: from eternity.cs.umass.edu (eternity.cs.umass.edu [128.119.41.46]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA03147 for <executor@nacm.com>; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 09:30:29 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eternity.cs.umass.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA12938 for executor@nacm.com; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:30:28 -0400 Message-Id: <199508091630.MAA12938@eternity.cs.umass.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: eternity.cs.umass.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: how to get binaries on a file server to work? In-reply-to: Message from "Jon Hall" <JMAH@isvr.soton.ac.uk> of "Wed, 09 Aug 95 15:53:23 -0000." <26F6BE919BC@dept1.isvr.soton.ac.uk> Reply-To: yanowitz@cs.umass.edu X-Mailer: MH 6.8.3 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 95 12:30:28 -0400 From: Jason Yanowitz <yanowitz@eternity.cs.umass.edu> X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk 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