Subject: Re: maintaining type/creator
From: Brice Ruth (brice@webprojkt.com)
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 20:38:15 EDT
So, let me make sure I understand this - if Mac user A creates PDF:
my-invoice and saves it to the netatalk drive "Temp" - Mac user B can
mount "Temp" and will see "my-invoice" as a Acrobat PDF?
Peter Gutowski wrote:
> 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.
>
-- Brice Ruth VP, Director of Internet Technology WebProjkt, Inc. http://www.webprojkt.com
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