Re: [netatalk-admins] Filesharing Mac & PC


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Filesharing Mac & PC
From: Marc Matteo (mmatteo@sacbee.com)
Date: Wed Dec 17 1997 - 17:46:21 EST


On 12/17/97, Christian Jung wrote:

>I moved some Word documents (.doc in PC) to Linux and loaded them on the
>Mac -> works fine.
>Then I moved some HTML and GIF Files from the PC to the Linux box and tried
>to open them with the Mac
>Result: The Mac claims that he can not open the file because it has not
>been found !?

>The Mac even shows only the Standard-Icon for these documents.
>Anyone a clue?

Check your "AppleVolumes.system" file. It maps the PC suffix to a Mac
type/creator. Make sure you have something like:

.html TEXT MOSS

This will make .html files show up as Netscape files.

.gif GIFf 8BIM

This will make .gif files show up a Photoshop files.

Hope this helps some...

Marc

Marc Matteo
Web Engineer, The Sacramento Bee
(916) 321-1242
http://www.sacbee.com



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