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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"