Subject: Re: AppleDouble/Resource Forks....
From: Rasca Gmelch (rasca@triad.de)
Date: Tue Aug 22 2000 - 05:18:15 EDT
hi,
> I was thinking about the resource fork situation on the Mac, and the
> apparent need for AppleDouble directories on netatalk - or is there?
>
> While I understand that there is a need to store the resource information
> somewhere, why not find a way to store said information in the actual file,
> instead of storing it in a separate directory.
>
> Thus, each file could have a header which provides pointers to data and
> resource 'fork', and the location they are stored - yet the file itself is
> stored in the fs as a single file.
and then you can't access the files in the normal way under the
unix/linux system - i mean the data fork! :-(
cu
rasca
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