Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Converting MIME AppleDouble resource fork to netatalk AppleDouble
From: Michael M Han (han@windy.ckm.ucsf.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 10 1998 - 19:44:58 EDT
asun's currently working on upgrading the AppleDouble support to v.2,
in order to get support for persistent DIDs. Look at the TODO in a new
release pre-2.0-a19 or pre-2.1.0.
Previously...
>I'm running netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a18.2, and I've hit a small snag. I've
>searched the email archives, looked through the source, even wandered through
>RFC 1740 with no luck.
>
>I have an application that has to extract MIME attachments from mail files
>and make them available via netatalk to some Macs. I'm using munpack to
>extract them and further processing the files dependant upon their encoding.
>
>If the encoding is BinHex, MacBinary, or AppleSingle, I can run unbin, unhex,
>or unsingle to split the attachments into the 2 files netatalk needs.
>
>I'm running into trouble when the encoding is AppleDouble. munpack leaves me
>2 files -- The data fork, and the AppleDouble resource file. I have tried
>simply moving the resource file into .AppleDouble with the correct name, but
>the Macs only see a default TEXT (folded-corner) document. Upon closer
>inspection it appears that the MIME AppleDouble format is a Ver. 2, where,
>netatalk uses a Ver. 1 format.
>
>Am I going to be stuck with trying to write a filter to convert these, or has
>someone already done it, or am I simply doing something wrong?
>
>Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Thad MacMillan
>Oregonain Publishing Co.
>Portland, OR
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