DCS100@PSUVM.BITNET (David C. Schweisguth) (09/10/89)
Hi, all. A summary of the answers to my recent question: >What are directory subtypes $4 and $8? [or ">"-preceded words to that effect] $4, which has for an icon a folder with an arrow pointing down into it, is an AppleShare drop folder. One can drop stuff into it but can't write to it, delete it, or whatever thereafter. $8, whose icon is a folder with a black tab, is an "owned" folder which can only be written to by its owner. Both of these directory subtypes (as well as subtype $2, the GS/OS System folder) actually have auxtype $0; only the icons themselves have the "auxtype" for icon-matching purposes. Gee, I'll bet those were in the manual, but I've never seen one ... _____________________________________________________________________________ / \ | David C. Schweisguth 406 Althouse Laboratory "When one has much to | | AppleLink PE: Von Mordo University Park, PA 16802 put into them, a day | | Bitnet: DCS100@PSUVM 814-862-0806 (home) or has a thousand pockets."| | GEnie: D.SCHWEISGUT 814-863-2791 (work) -- Friedrich Nietzsche | \_____________________________________________________________________________/
dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (09/12/89)
In article <89252.175435DCS100@PSUVM.BITNET> DCS100@PSUVM.BITNET (David C. Schweisguth) writes: >[...] >$8, whose icon is a folder with a black tab, is an "owned" folder which can >only be written to by its owner. Almost: The back tab means you're the folder's owner, but that's all it means. It doesn't tell you what access other people have to the folder, if any. (For example, in a whole folder full of Drop Folders, everybody else's shows up to me with the down-pointing arrow, but my *own* drop folder, which I own, shows up with a black tab, instead. To verify that it's a drop folder, I can select it and choose Icon Info, and then click on the Access card.) -- --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.