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- I saw this question go through here a while back, but never saw an answer. I use
- Executor on my Linux box here at work. (Linux version 1.2.13, for those who care) It
- is also set up as a Apple File Server speaking AppleTalk via the UNIX Netatalk
- package.
-
- The question is this: Does ARDI have any plans to have Executor be able to
- interpret the contents of the subdirectory that is being exported for the other Macs
- to use? I'm not asking that executor be able to go out onto the net and read what
- other Macs are exporing via AppleTalk (yet) ;), but just to interpret what is local
- to my hard drive.
-
- The problem is that it seems to use different mechanisms for handing the resource
- and data forks than executor. Whereas executor has "FILENAME" and "%FILENAME",
- Netatalk seems to have the "FILENAME" and then a whole bunch of information in
- subdirectores called such things as ".AppleDesktop" and ".AppleDouble" and "Network
- Trash Folder".
-
- Am I hoping for too much? It would be wonderful to have my co-worker drop a Word or
- Excel document onto my machine via AppleTalk and then just fire up executor and
- double click on the docuement to launch the application.
-
- Thanks,
- Ron Passerini
- Harvard University O.I.T.
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