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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
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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
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