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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
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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