On Thursday, August 11, 2005, at 07:55 AM, Marc van Gemert wrote:
Op 11-aug-05 om 6:09 heeft Peter Schaff het volgende geschreven:
OK, good to know. There is one file in each Amiga directory called
".info" which I suppose does what ".DS_Store" does in OSX.
But each file/directory in Amiga OS can have an extension of .info.
i.e. "App" would have an accompanying "App.info" file, and
"prettypic.jpg" would have an associated "prettypic.jpg.info". These
are the ones whose invisibility I'm curious about. Does this ring any
bells?
I'm no Amiga user, but if you Google for ".info files" and the word
Amiga you'll find a lot of explanations:
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22.info+files%22+Amiga>
Marc
I understand the Amiga files fairly well. Remember, it's not invisible
on the Amiga. The purpose of the .info files is mainly to give
Workbench (aka Desktop) something to show the user and has a little
(primitive by Mac standards) icon graphic. It also contains particular
parameters the program or document file needs, particularly when
launched from Workbench.
As you seem to know a lot more than I do about the UNIX underpinnings,
I was hoping you knew of some UNIX invisible file profile that would
include AmigaApp.info.
Maybe I should Google .info +UNIX? Nope, Google sees ".info" as "info"
and there's lots of info about UNIX.
Following your format, UNIX plus ".info files" gave me reference to a
message I typed on Mac Network here. 8^D
Using 10.2.8 Find on the iMac from the PM, in the root directory is the
invisible usr file. Inside of this there are occurrences of filenames
with ".info" in them. These files look like manuals or something,
mostly emacs(?), readable in TextEdit. Guess that answers my question,
sort of. Thanks for your steerage.
- Peter
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