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- In article <4fh98c$ma6@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>,
- namh@wintermute.resnet.cornell.edu (Hyung-song Nam) writes:
- >
- >hello,
- > I have netatalk package running on my machine, so I
- >was able to mount my disk on a mac and copy files to my
- >linux disk. Is there any way to use these files with executor?
- >It seems afpd keeps two separate files for a mac file. (data
- >and resource fork in separate files)
-
-
- both executor and netatalk use separate files for resource forks of
- files. unfortunately, they do things differently. the obvious
- difference is netatalks use of the .AppleDouble directory for resource
- fork storage and executors use of the %filename storage. if you run
- the actuall files through something like 'od' (octal dump) on a unix
- system you'll see that even the structure of these files is
- different. personally, i prefer the use of the .AppleDouble files as
- it eliminates the plethora of %filenames in directories i often access
- through shell.
-
- in any event, there is a kludgy way to get things to work. basically,
- you need to get a resource fork written for both executor and
- netatalk. it's much easier to get the netatalk resource fork written
- since it just uses suffix mapping for that purpose. so, in general,
- if i want to work with an MS word file on my linux box using executor
- i will binhex that file on the mac, copy it to my linux machine either
- using FTP or netatalk (usually netatalk) and then unhex it using
- CompactPro under executor saving the file such that it is named with a
- .doc extension.
-
- under linux this works nicely. you are not limited by filename length
- so you can essentially use filenames with spaces and netatalk won't
- care. both test.doc and 'this is a test.doc' will both be seen as MS
- Word files via netatalk.
-
- well, that's my $0.02,
-
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