Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] AppleVolumes.system - Entrys
From: Vivek (vivek@imaginet.co.uk)
Date: Thu Dec 18 1997 - 08:22:00 EST
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Christian Jung wrote:
> >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.
>
> Does anybody know where I can find information about these entrys?
> I dont know what MOSS or 8BIM stand for. Is there a list or something
> showing that MOSS means Netscape-File or 8BIM a Photoshop-File?
> As a PC user I would like some information about this AppleVolumes.system
> file be included in the Netatalk package. Think there is no info yet :(
If you place files which have the correct icons on a Mac onto a netatalk
shared volume, then look at the .AppleDouble entries for those files, you
should see an 8 character long string inside, ~25bytes from the end, like
'TEXTUNIX' or 'PDF CARO'. Be warned, if you set the first 4 characters to
TEXT, the file will be subject to CR/LF translation [I think]. The second
half indicates which application is considered to 'own' the file. I don't
know how to view this info on a Mac - I've heard of something called
'resedit', which sounds like it might show you this info, but that's
pretty much 4th or 5th hand. This is all pretty empirical, so if someone
actually _knows_ , I'd be happy to know :). Hope this helps.
-- fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/cortex
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