John N. Alegre wrote:
On 06-May-04 Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Or you could just make the directory on the server an NFS export and have the OSX machines mount it at boot over the network as if it was a local drive. Then if you copy the file via the finder then it WILL copy everything that's needed. If your using ftp or scp then just have the person use stuffit to compress the files together and this will get everything that's needed to make the files usable on any other Mac.
This is exactly correct.
Yes, but I understood the problem was (apart from AppleTalk not working on SuSE) plainly transferring the two-forks Mac files.
Use standard Linux / UNIX to export / mount an NFS drive. This will appear on the desktop as a drive. Copy Mac files to and from that drive and 9.0 resource fork will be preserved to and from. Note that OS X files do no longer use the
Are you sure?? I remember warnings about not to do that. The resource fork is lost in *any* case. This is the main reason of using Stuffit or the old binhex format.
concept of a resource fork
Of course. That's why I was talking about "old Mac OS9 files". Now the "resources" are in a mess of directories, under the main framework directory...
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