Subject: Re: maintaining type/creator
From: wesley.craig@umich.edu
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 10:06:16 EDT
> From: Sak Wathanasin <sw@nan.co.uk>
> To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> No, the previous poster was correct: the extensions map in the
> AppleVolumes.system is used ONLY for files that are NOT created by a
> Mac. The MacOS filesystem maintains type/creator, icon, position,
> comments etc itself, completely integrated into the filesystem. Unix
> has no direct equivalent of this, so netatalk simulates this by
> maintaining a hidden directory .AppleDesktop at the top-level of each
> mount point.
Actually, .AppleDesktop should have creator/type to icon mappings and
creator to pathname mappings. Icons are stored both in .AppleDesktop
and usually in the application. Creator and type themselves are store
in the AppleDouble header file, as are position and comments.
:wes
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