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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:2173 comp.os.386bsd.development:1336 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1315 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!news.provo.novell.com!park.uvsc.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) 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: 23 Oct 1993 06:42:08 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 19 Message-ID: <2aajo0$7pr@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <CEv6Co.MA1.3@cs.cmu.edu> <29o4a1$r6u@u.cc.utah.edu> <29otpb$s8a@news.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <29otpb$s8a@news.u.washington.edu> tzs@stein3.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes: >A Wizard of Earth C <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: >>Note that you will either have to extend the VNOPS tabe or forget about >>resource forks. > >How about making each Mac file appear to be three unix files? Mac file >"foo" would appear under unix as "foo" (the data fork), "foo:r" (the >resource fork), and "foo:i" (the Finder information). I can't comment too heavily here; suffice it to say, it will introduce some bad synchronization problems unless it's done in the kernel (read atributes in the FS). Access requires VNOPS mods. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.