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From: bof@wg.saar.de (Patrick Schaaf)
Subject: Re: Has anyone written a Mac FS or Mac FS Access utilities for Linux or 386BSD?
References: <CEv6Co.MA1.3@cs.cmu.edu> <29o4a1$r6u@u.cc.utah.edu> <29otpb$s8a@news.u.washington.edu> <29vld0$n11@news.delphi.com>
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 19:02:05 GMT
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cshaulis@news.delphi.com (CSHAULIS@DELPHI.COM) writes:
>[on MAC files and their forks, and how they might map to files under Linux]

Would it be a Bad Thing to have files that, in addition to being a normal
file (the data fork), implement the various directory ops? i.e. access the
data fork as 'foo`, and other forks as 'foo/thingie` and so on?

having strange ideas...
  Patrick
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