Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:29:34 -0400 From: Lee Capps <lcapps@cteresource.org> To: questions questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder Message-ID: <20051019022934.GA79010@topper.cteresource.org> In-Reply-To: <4D7DB329-249E-4FC2-8E27-FDD1D582DB4C@shire.net> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEJIFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <4D7DB329-249E-4FC2-8E27-FDD1D582DB4C@shire.net>
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At 16:30 Tue 18 Oct 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > >Ah, then when the user 'cleans up' all those dot files from her > >Windows > >box that happens to be mounting the same volume exported via Samba, > >they become unusable! ;-) > > Not usually. meta data in resource forks is supposed to be non > essential data (window positions, etc). If they are using the stuff > cross platform they probably won't have resource forks in the first > place or can survive without them. > > In practice it is not a problem for most people. And on OS X most > apps do not create resource forked files anyway > Okay, this is getting pretty OT, but just let me say--don't lose the resource fork to a Mac Quicken file. I don't know what's in there, but it's more than the window positions and the color of the file. But you're right--most of the time it is no longer an issue. We just happen to have tons of legacy Mac files. Lee -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center
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