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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:2016 comp.os.386bsd.development:1319 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1265 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!stein3.u.washington.edu!tzs From: tzs@stein3.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Has anyone written a Mac FS or Mac FS Access utilities for Linux or 386BSD? Date: 17 Oct 1993 00:25:34 GMT Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <29q3du$57i@news.u.washington.edu> References: <CEv6Co.MA1.3@cs.cmu.edu> <29o4a1$r6u@u.cc.utah.edu> <29otpb$s8a@news.u.washington.edu> <CGD.93Oct16065256@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >hmm. A/UX does something like: > foo data fork > %foo resource fork > >and i dunno what for the finder info... > >it'd probably be a good idea to follow the A/UX convention -- >it's a unix on the mac and i for one would like to see >the mac port of NetBSD be as A/UX compatible in terms of things >like *that* as possible... (but no, i don't want NetBSD to become >svr2... *chuckle* 8-) Actually, A/UX does not provide unix support for the Mac filesystem. Files on a Mac partition are only accessible from the A/UX Finder and from Mac programs. Unix programs do not see files on Mac partitions. Thus, A/UX does not really answer the question of what a Mac file on a Mac partition should look like to unix programs. --Tim Smith