Re: [netatalk-admins] Netatalk resource fork format


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Netatalk resource fork format
From: jhart@abacus.bates.edu
Date: Wed Jan 20 1999 - 17:12:29 EST


On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Mark Donnelly wrote:

> I'm giving a presentation to a UNIX users group next Wednesday covering
> filesharing to Mac boxen (netatalk) and Wintel boxen (SAMBA). On the
> issue of AppleSharing, there is at least one installation I know of that's
> looking to move from an older K-AShare that came with IRIX
> (.HSResource/.HSancillary, and a horrible product in my opinion) to
> Adrian's ASIP netatalk on a NFS'd Linux/FreeBSD server.
>
> Is there any sort of conversion utility that anybody has come up with to
> go from .HS* to .AppleDouble? Or from .rsrc (ushare) to .AppleDouble? For
> these people, I think that conversion is going to be a fairly major thing.

If you can get both servers running at the same time, conversion should
be trivial. Just copy the files from one to the other using a Macintosh.

--
Jim Hart
"to be yourself, in a world that tries, night and day, to make you just
like everybody else - is to fight the greatest battle there ever is to
fight, and never stop fighting" -- e.e. cummings



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