jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) (08/24/87)
For those of you who don't normally follow the AppleTalk newsgroup,
I should point out that there is an important proposal posted there
that affects all Macintosh programs in hetereogeneous computing
environments:
From: andrews@apple.UUCP (Richard Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Mac File Representation
Message-ID: <1587@apple.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 87 22:36:51 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
Here is our first attempt at a proposal for representing Mac files
on other file systems. Please circulate it freely. I welcome
comments and suggestions, with the following caveat:
PLEASE KEEP YOUR COMMENTS BRIEF AND CONCISE. I EXPECT A LOT OF
FEEDBACK AND I CAN'T POSSIBLY WADE THROUGH A WHOLE LOT OF MATERIAL.
I CANNOT REPLY TO EVERYONE PERSONALLY.
It proposes two file formats, AppleSingle and AppleDouble, which
represent a file on another file system (e.g. UNIX or MS-DOS) as
either one file, or two files, respectively.
Further information and discussion can be found in comp.protocols.appletalk.
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Joel West (c/o UCSD)
Palomar Software, Inc., P.O. Box 2635, Vista, CA 92083
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