Subject: Re: disabling creation of .AppleDouble, etc.?
From: Michael Stone (mstone@itri.loyola.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 30 1997 - 09:29:11 EDT
Quoting Patrik Schindler (poc@pingnet.de):
> > Is it possible to compile Netatalk 1.4b2 so that it never creates
> > .AppleDouble, .AppleDesktop directories? It looks like it could do
> > without (e.g. on non writable directories).
>
> Why do that? If you'll write any File from Macs over Netatalk, Mac Flags
> and other stuff must be written.
What if you want the macs to have access to the data, but don't want
them leaving stuff all over the place? In a mixed environment, there
isn't much point in having the resource fork anyway, since the dos
and unix clients ignore it already.
Mike Stone
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