Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!SAFE.STANFORD.EDU!croft From: croft@SAFE.STANFORD.EDU (Bill Croft) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Mac file components on non-apple file servers Message-ID: <8707132308.AA17913@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 17:22:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8707132308.AA17913 Posted: Mon Jul 13 17:22:00 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jul-87 01:45:06 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 46 Rich Andrews at Apple (one of the Appleshare developers) would like to know how the various file servers on UNIX (and elsewhere) store the components of a Mac file (data fork, resource fork, finder info). It appears that each file server is implementing this differently. It might help if there was some standardization in this area. Could the file server developers each reply to Rich (and info-appletalk) with a brief rational for their choices? Hopefully we'll get responses from Columbia (CAP/Aufs), UMich CITI (MacNFS), Centram (TOPS), Alisa (VMS file service), etc. To mention in passing: John Seamons at LucasFilm chose for his original EFS server to store the components of a Mac file (for example named 'foo') as: foo.DF (data fork) foo.RF (resource fork) foo.IF (finder info) This is a very simple scheme, and I think has some advantages over trying to 'hide' these details from the user, as CAP/Aufs does with '.resource' and '.finderinfo' subdirectories. ------- Forwarded Message Date: Sat, 11 Jul 87 14:41:19 pdt From: Richard AndrewsTo: croft%safe@ARGUS.STANFORD.EDU Subject: file server survey When you put a Mac file on some other file system that doesn't support dual- forked files, in what format should it be stored? Some kind of unary format (data, rsrc, forks and finder info crammed into one file); file-per-fork with invisibility of the resource fork; directory containing several files; etc.??? I have managed (I think) to get myself connected to the bulletin board comp.protocols.appletalk and apple.general, but I haven't figured out how to post a message. Could you do that for me, and ask people to send their suggestions directly to my account? I will collect all the info and discuss it with a working group here at Apple. Hopefully, Apple can come up with a recommendation that will satisfy most people. Thanks for your help, Rich ------- End of Forwarded Message