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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 06:44:12 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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In article <CGD.93Oct16065256@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
[ ... resource forks visible in the UNIX directory name space ... ]
>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-)

A/UX supports resource forks internal to the FS, not add on files.  The
directory manipulation of resource forsk is not allowed; they come and
go with the data fork.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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