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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA29165 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:40:55 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id NAA20793; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 13:40:48 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0t4vM1-000YcBC; Mon, 16 Oct 95 13:37 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0t4vLz-00002QC; Mon, 16 Oct 95 13:37 MDT Message-Id: <m0t4vLz-00002QC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 95 13:37 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews) To: Brad Midgley <brad@pht.com> Cc: "David E. Hollingsworth" <deh@atype.com>, executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: netatalk-style resource forks? (please? :) In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951016091032.28145B-100000@exodus.pht.com> References: <9510121921.AA09602@ sol.atype.com > <Pine.LNX.3.91.951016091032.28145B-100000@exodus.pht.com> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Brad" == Brad Midgley <brad@pht.com> writes: Brad> hello... desktop representation is out of the question (too Brad> different for everybody), but executor should at least put Brad> its resource forks in a subdirectory without mangling the Brad> name. Other schemes could depend on softlinks to that Brad> directory. (would only have to be fixed up when folders Brad> were created) Mangling the name in the current directory is Brad> ugly. The problem is that the Apple Double spec. is an incredibly bad specification, but rather than go our own way, we adhere to it. There are actually a few other Mac connectivity tools that adhere to the spec. as written and Executor will interact with them correctly (off the top of my head I think InterCon has a product that does this and I think Paul Hargrove's HFS Linux filesystem can create in-spec AppleDouble names). Brad> The easy road to get executor to deal with a network on a Brad> netatalk-supported host will be to depend on kernel DDP and Brad> link in the netatalk libs. so why not use a compatible Brad> naming scheme now and avoid the headache later? Yes and no. We could make a very quick hack to support the netatalk style names and have considered doing it at least for our own internal use (Cotton uses netatalk) but have so far resisted. I think Cotton plans on writing a little script that will recursively convert a directory and its children in either direction between the netatalk naming convention to the AppleDouble naming convention. That will be useful to him and perhaps to many of you out there as well. Internally Executor and netatalk both use the AppleDouble file format; it's only the naming where they deviate from the spec. Brad> btw, ardi's bugs/feedback page is broken. anyone there? Send e-mail to "webmaster@ardi.com" and cc it to "bugs@ardi.com" with more detail and we'll get it fixed ASAP. We have received a few bug reports here and there so we assumed it was working. Brad> On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, David E. Hollingsworth wrote: >> In article >> <Pine.LNX.3.91.951012081238.1368B-100000@exodus.pht.com> Brad >> Midgley <junkmail@pht.com> writes: > 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?) >> >> Of course, CAP aufs uses .resource directories, Helios >> EtherShare and IPT uShare use .rsrc directories, Xinet KA-Share >> uses .HSResource directories, and Pacer PacerShare uses >> afp_resource directories. >> >> There are corresponding differences for desktop representation. >> Many of these systems also appear to have files or directories >> for storing finder information. Fun, eh? Brad> brad@pht.com