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- >Here's the setup:
- >
- >I'm running Linux (1.3.12), XFree3.1 (yes I am behind the times) and
- >Executor-1.99o.
- >
- >We have netware 3.11 running, with the nfs-nlm on it. I am
- >NFS-mounting all the netware volumes, which includes a volume with all
- >the mac software for office.
- >
- >Unfortunately, I am unable to run any of these programs. (examples:
- >word 5.1, hypercard, macwrite, macdraw) because executor doesn't see
- >them as executable.. all the files have the "scroll" icon (I assume
- >for identifying text files). When I double click on Word (for
- >example) it opens Tex-Edit (which is understandable if it thinks it's
- >a text file). get-information reveals:
- >
- >creator: unix
- >type: text
- >
- >note, the % files are getting created in these directories (which
- >also, obviously, means I have write permission in these directories).
- >
- >So, is there a way to get executor to correctly "create" the
- >creator/type (or read it from the information that's there -- is this
- >a quesiton of getting it to be netware-aware, i.e., aware of the way
- >netware stores the resource fork?)?
-
- 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.
-
- The only real fix for this would be for Executor to have
- Appletalk/Appleshare capability (then it could pretend to be a Mac to
- the server), but I guess that's quite a way away yet.
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