jcb2647@cec1.wustl.edu (James Christopher Beard) (03/13/90)
We have a few aufs (Apple-Unix File Server) servers set up on Unix machines. They do everything they are supposed to, but we would like to establish occasional access to their files via modem connection to the unix host where the Mac files reside. I know there is the Shiva NetBridge designed to make your modem-connected Mac behave as though it's on AppleTalk (only slower), but I'm talking about occasional use only via the Unix host. Since aufs stores the Mac files in parts (the data fork in the directory whose name matches the folder, the resource fork in a hidden subdirectory of it with the name ".resource", the info in a hidden subdirectory called ".fileinfo"), I thought that maybe the encoding was like that used with macput and macget. I tried copying these three files and giving them the names "File.info", "File.data", and "File.rsrc", then converting them to MacBinary format with macbin. The result (failure) suggests that the encoding is indeed NOT the same as macput/macget. Does anyone know a way to convert both ways between these file segments as stored by aufs and the MacBinary (.bin, BinHex 5.0) format? If you have a lead, please respond by mail and I will summarize for the news. James Beard (beard@wuibc2.wustl.edu)