Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Files starting with .
From: Steve Lay (S.W.Lay@damtp.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 26 1998 - 04:47:08 EST
>And even from a modern MacOS perspective. Norton should have long ago
>removed that paranoid warning. Just last week when I upgraded Eudora to
>4.0.2, it installed a ".Keyboard" file. From memory, at one point MacOS
>files beginning with "." were exclusively drivers and other files
>beginning with "." could confuse it. That's no longer the case. At the
>moment, I have lots of "." files on my MacOS partitions (and, of course,
>on my LinuxPPC partition and my other Unix boxes).
Is everyone sure this is right? What if you create a file called something
like ".MPP" and then try and write to it with an old application (or one
that never updated its codebase) that calls the ambiguous version of the
Open function? Surely mayhem?
Steve Lay
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