Re: [netatalk-admins] NFS/SMB/Appleshare on the same file system


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] NFS/SMB/Appleshare on the same file system
From: Richard Wackerbarth (rkw@dataplex.net)
Date: Sun Jul 13 1997 - 17:41:05 EDT


At 4:12 PM -0500 7/13/97, Michael Stone wrote:

>Hmm. So, how do the macs figure out the file type and creator for
>files created by non-macs? If that data can be generated part of
>the time, I don't see why it can't be generated all of the time.

It can, it the data is "non-Mac". However, the Mac has no concept
of generating anything in that form.

Because they can assume a "default" when they have no better information,
they can use data generated by another system following some default
name->content mapping.
However, there is nothing to require that the file follows the default
convention. For example, I could create xxx.jpg which was really a
spreadsheet. On the Mac, double-clicking on that document would launch
Excel rather than Photoshop.



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