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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:2174 comp.os.386bsd.development:1337 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1316 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 06:44:12 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 24 Message-ID: <2aajrs$7qr@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <29o4a1$r6u@u.cc.utah.edu> <29otpb$s8a@news.u.washington.edu> <CGD.93Oct16065256@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.