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From: c9107786@peach.newcastle.edu.au (David Leonard)
Subject: Re: Has anyone written a Mac FS or Mac FS Access utilities for Linux or 386BSD?
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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 16:12:20 GMT
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lih@news.cs.columbia.edu (Andrew "Fuz" Lih) writes:
>In article <CF7M7I.Enw@wg.saar.de>, Patrick Schaaf <bof@wg.saar.de> wrote:
>>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...
>Not so strange: that's how the Apple UNIX File System in the Columbia
>AppleTalk Package does it. It's been in active use for over 5 years now.
CAP does that. Its quite a natural thing to do in a UFS, to put things in
directories. The macintosh file "foo" would appear as:
./foo (the data fork)
./.resource/foo (the resource fork)
./.finderinfo/foo (other stuff)
The group and owner of the file are used for the Sharing stuff (naturally)
I dont think you should nasty up the kernel to handle non-flat (bent?) files,
just like I dont think you should nasty it up for non-flat memory addr spaces.
What would also be tricky is a program similar to AccessPC for the Mac that
possibly supplemented the Install program provided with the ALICE project,
that would allow you to mount a UFS under MacOS. I guess all this will come
in Time.
Dave Leonard
Regarding MacBSD: I too checked in the cupboard and found a tin of Miracle
Whip and a packet of OREOs. Bummer.