Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] urgent: user volume does not show, word documents canīt be read
From: David Kelly (dkelly@hiwaay.net)
Date: Mon Feb 09 1998 - 21:28:09 EST
> - When I save an excel document with pc and SAMBA in the Nacintosh file
> area. The mac canīt read it. They get the message "the file canīt be read".
> If I take the same file and save it on a disk on a PC and open it on a mac
> the file can be read by mac excel with no problems. If I save a excel file
> on the linux box on a mac, that file can be read and changed on a PC using
> samba. It only fails if the file is created from scratch on a pc.
Map your Excel extension ("*.xls"?) to the appropriate type/creator in
AppleVolumes.system. You could hexdump the resource fork of an Excel
file created by a Mac to find the values your Mac user's like. Simply
cd to an .AppleDouble directory and hexdump an Excel file there.
-- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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