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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:2118 comp.os.386bsd.development:1332 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1306 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.cs.columbia.edu!news.cs.columbia.edu!news-not-for-mail 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 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <2a4l4h$bqs@lasalle.cs.columbia.edu> References: <CEv6Co.MA1.3@cs.cmu.edu> <29otpb$s8a@news.u.washington.edu> <29vld0$n11@news.delphi.com> <CF7M7I.Enw@wg.saar.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lasalle.cs.columbia.edu 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. -- `''' Andrew "Fuz" Lih Columbia University c @@ lih@cs.columbia.edu Central Research Facilities Tech Staff \ - Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean, "not really"