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From: lih@news.cs.columbia.edu (Andrew "Fuz" Lih)
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: 20 Oct 1993 20:29:05 -0400
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
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References: <CEv6Co.MA1.3@cs.cmu.edu> <29otpb$s8a@news.u.washington.edu> <29vld0$n11@news.delphi.com> <CF7M7I.Enw@wg.saar.de>
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In article <CF7M7I.Enw@wg.saar.de>, Patrick Schaaf <bof@wg.saar.de> wrote:
>cshaulis@news.delphi.com (CSHAULIS@DELPHI.COM) writes:
>>[on MAC files and their forks, and how they might map to files under Linux]
>
>Would it be a Bad Thing to have files that, in addition to being a normal
>file (the data fork), implement the various directory ops? i.e. access the
>data fork as 'foo`, and other forks as 'foo/thingie` and so on?
>
>having strange ideas...

Not so strange: that's how the Apple UNIX File System in the Columbia
AppleTalk Package does it.  It's been in active use for over 5 years now.

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`'''   Andrew "Fuz" Lih	              Columbia University
c @@   lih@cs.columbia.edu	      Central Research Facilities Tech Staff
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  -    Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean, "not really"