On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, David Bovill wrote:
> Thanks Kevin...
>
> so what do you think, is it technically possible for a PC or Unix system
> to save this invisible Mac-specific information, so that it magically
> appears on the Mac without having to do or use anything else? Still can't
> see the technical problem with Metacard building this cross-platform
> support feature in.
>
> Scott?
There are PC and UNIX tools that allow you to store Mac files on them,
but all they do is create a hidden "mirror" directory where the file
information and resource forks are stored. It's a hack, and doesn't
work so hot when you try to deal with those Mac "files" using regular
DOS or UNIX tools. The other ways of doing this are to convert the
files to BinHex or MacBinary format, both of which allow the files to
be moved around normally, but then you can't open and read them like
you would normal files, even if they only have stuff in the data fork
(as is the case for MetaCard stacks). Worse, MacOS doesn't even have
support for these two formats built in, so you have to use some other
program to convert them to real MacOS files.
There are no other ways. The MacOS file system has three places where
it can store information in a file, and DOS and UNIX only have one.
And there's no way to make one thing do the work of three.
Regards,
Scott
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