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Received: from pht.com (exodus.pht.com [198.60.59.99]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA03577 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 09:21:18 -0700 Received: by pht.com id AA01682 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for executor@nacm.com); Thu, 12 Oct 1995 08:32:49 -0600 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 08:32:48 -0600 (MDT) From: Brad Midgley <junkmail@pht.com> To: executor@nacm.com Cc: brad@pht.com Subject: netatalk-style resource forks? (please? :) Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951012081238.1368B-100000@exodus.pht.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk 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. ---------- 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...)