Subject: Re: netatalk in production environments....(RFC)
From: Marcus Radich (marcus@darena.co.nz)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 15:06:11 EDT
At 7:53 pm +0200 31/5/2000, Patrik Schindler wrote:
>At 18:24 Uhr +0100 31.05.2000, Sak Wathanasin wrote:
>
> >You may not have a choice: applications may save aliases in their
> >data or pref files. Eg I think Quark Express does this when you embed
> >links to other docs. This is compounded by the fact that this is
> >Apple-recommended practice (to save aliases rather than pathnames).
>
>Yes, you're right.
>Fortunately I'm not using such appls :-)
>
>:wq! PoC
This is *not* the case with QuarkXPress. Any files with embedded
links saved to a netatalk server will retain those links from session
to session - there is no problem with asun37b. Freehand is the only
app with a problem. 99% of our customers use Quark on a daily basis,
and they have no complaints! (We did have to tickle the makefile to
get it to work with OS9/G4s)
However, if you do use an app which ONLY stores the alias as a file
reference, you will have problems. QuarkXPress, Photoshop,
Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and
Filemaker don't have this issue. Tried and tested in over 20 sites.
mrad01
========================================================
"Always ask the question, never assume the answer."
Marcus Radich 1999
========================================================
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Wed Jan 17 2001 - 14:30:50 EST