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- (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? :)
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- 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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