At 11:33 Uhr -0700 10.05.2000, Brandon Warren wrote:

>If a resource fork exists, then it comes from that, right?
>If a resource fork does not exist, then what?

>From the settings in one .AppleVolumes file.

>On netatalk, how does the AppleVolumes.system file fit into
>this?  It seems to supply the type and creator when the
>resource fork is missing, but how?

Look into the examples in the source tree.

> I opened a file with
>Res Edit.  This file's type and creator was filled in by
>AppleVolumes.system, yet Res Edit said that there was no
>resource fork.  How can netatalk inform the Mac of the
>type and creator if not by creating a resource fork?

The Resource Fork itself has nothing to do with Mac-file-flags.
The .AppleDouble file stores more than just Resources. Therefore it is named 
.AppleDouble, not .rsrc as with Helios.

>Is any of this info stored in the Desktop?

No.

:wq! PoC


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