Subject: Re: Apple Double?
From: Philip Bertuglia (pbertugl@wheatonma.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 17:40:02 EDT
Is it true that on most applications the resource fork contains more then
just he creator information? I was under the impression that the
application uses the information as well. Thus, a file with no resource fork
is almost totally useless. I hope I'm wrong, because this would save me a
lot of time.
Phil
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Patrik Schindler wrote:
> At 15:01 Uhr -0500 03.04.2000, Bill Carlson wrote:
>
> >I'm at 1.42b+asun2.1.3 on Solaris 2.6. I was having all sorts of problems
> >with clients reading .AppleDouble files (from a 1.42.b+asun2.1.0 setup),
> >so I decided to cleanse the file system by removing all the .AppleDouble
> >files, figuring they would be recreated, no big deal.
>
> If you don't have any programs, this is okay.
>
> >Well, that went ok and works, users have to open their files within the
> >application for the document, no big deal. However, the .AppleDouble files
> >created are bogus, I've been getting the following in syslog:
> >afpd[17612]: ad_refresh: can't parse AppleDouble header.
> >afpd[17084]: ad_refresh: can't parse AppleDouble header.
>
> Are you sure that they have been recreated at this point?
>
> >I've also noticed that the icon given to the file is not that of the
> >application used to modify/save the file.
>
> If there are no .AppleDouble files, files are mapped via extension mappings in an AppleVolumes File. Have a look into this.
>
> >Seems to me a field is off
> >somewhere. Is there a fix for this? The only compile time settings I
> >changed were to leave out PAM support and enable Berkeley DB. Is there
> >something else I should have included?
>
> No, I dont' think so.
>
> :wq! PoC
>
>
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