Subject: Re: maintaining type/creator
From: Peter Gutowski (petergut@mediaone.net)
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 20:03:43 EDT
On Monday, September 4, 2000, Brice Ruth <brice@webprojkt.com> wrote:
>Harry,
>
>Thanx for the response. To my knowledge, I'm running the latest netatalk
>(1.4b2+asun?). I'm running on RedHat 6.2, I downloaded the src & compiled it.
>I have a AppleVolumes file in the user's home directory, but from what I can
>see, if it doesn't have an extension, netatalk just sends it back as UNIX/TEXT
>(i.e. not what it was to begin with). Since control panels, extensions, fonts,
>etc. don't have a '.' extension, from what little I'm able to determine, the
>AppleVolumes file can't help me ...
>
>Please correct any wrongs :)
The filetypes and creator information is stored along with a file's resource fork in the [various] .AppleDouble directories. Unless these directories [the .AppleDouble dirs] have permissions/ownership problems, Mac files don't need any extensions to show up as the correct type. The file extension mappings in the AppleVolumes.system file is a *convenience* feature to allow files created by other systems to show up as the proper Mac types. E.g.
.tif TIFF
Ordinarily, the copying of a Mac file onto a netatalk server maintains type/creator without any other interaction.
-- Peter Gutowski / petergut@mediaone.net"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy day." -- Susan Ertz (c. 1894-1985), American Writer
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