--On 5/10/00 3:24 PM -0800 Tom Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But, for the purposes of this discussion (relating to netatalk), the
> type/creator information IS contained in the ".AppleDouble" directory
> with the resource fork information.
True, but the AppleDouble format is designed only for the representation of
Mac files on foreign filesystems that don't support the semantics required
by MacOS. It was simply a matter of convenience to put all the
"Mac-special" stuff, i.e. the resource fork and the Finder data, into one
file. That doesn't mean they are related or that the Finder data is
somehow part of the resource fork, only that they happen to be kept in the
same place in the special case of using AppleDouble to store them on a
foreign filesystem.
++Don
