Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] I'm worried..
From: Bill Studenmund (skippy@macro.stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 20 1998 - 23:10:11 EST
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Bill Stewart-Cole wrote:
> At 5:03 PM -0600 1/20/98, Scott Venier wrote:
>
> >The way I understand it, if all the files are created on a Mac, and just
> >saved to the netatalk volume, the AppleVolumes.system doesn't come into
> >play. The Mac will save the file with the correct type and creator codes.
> >The mappings are for files that got onto the drive in some other way
> >(created in unix, samba share to a pc, ftp, etc.) and don't have a
> >.AppleDouble entry associated with them.
>
> Yes. I guess I didn't make that clear.
>
> If all you ever do with your netatalk-shared space is move files to and
> from Macs via AFP, the AppleVolumes type/creator mappings serve no purpose.
> They only get applied to files of mysterious and dubious origins (like Unix
> and Wintel sources... )
Unfortunatly it's not always so. A few programs will save a file first as
a 'TEXT' file, and then change its file type. Thus when it gets read, NO
translation gets done, and the file is read corrupted.
Though there's no good fix for this, one change might be to look and see
if a file's changing translation status when changing finder attributes,
and translate it on the fly if so, That way, it'll get read right.
If this idea gets implimented, it should be an option. :-)
Take care,
Bill
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