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On 5/21/10 9:50 PM, john gale wrote:
> 
> On May 21, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> 
>> In the thread you referenced, Hanspeter had asked whether the original
>> poster had a custom icon for the hard drive where Fink was being
>> installed.  Do you have one?
> 
> 
> Ah, forgot that question.  No, I do not have a custom icon for the HD that 
> Fink is being installed on.
> 
> However, that still shouldn't be installed in /._.
> 
> When I paste a custom icon onto a SnowLeopard HD, there is a file written at 
> /.VolumeIcon.icns
> 
> What is the original problem?  No system file that I know of writes anything 
> to /._. let alone any dot-underbar file.  Dot-underbar files (AppleDouble) 
> are generally reserved for filesystems that do not understand resource forks 
> or extended attributes, of which any HFS+ FS should (which is what mine, and 
> most Mac OS boot volumes, is).
> 
>       ~ john
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Right now this is still a mystery.  The prior post was the first time
that I can recall ever seeing such a report.

- -- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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