Subject: Re: On Mac: How is file type and creator determined?
From: Patrik Schindler (poc@pocnet.net)
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 02:45:17 EDT
At 11:33 Uhr -0700 10.05.2000, Brandon Warren wrote:
>If a resource fork exists, then it comes from that, right?
>If a resource fork does not exist, then what?
>From the settings in one .AppleVolumes file.
>On netatalk, how does the AppleVolumes.system file fit into
>this? It seems to supply the type and creator when the
>resource fork is missing, but how?
Look into the examples in the source tree.
> I opened a file with
>Res Edit. This file's type and creator was filled in by
>AppleVolumes.system, yet Res Edit said that there was no
>resource fork. How can netatalk inform the Mac of the
>type and creator if not by creating a resource fork?
The Resource Fork itself has nothing to do with Mac-file-flags.
The .AppleDouble file stores more than just Resources. Therefore it is named .AppleDouble, not .rsrc as with Helios.
>Is any of this info stored in the Desktop?
No.
:wq! PoC
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