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. -- Joel West (c/o UCSD) Palomar Software, Inc., P.O. Box 2635, Vista, CA 92083 {ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu or ihnp4!crash!palomar!joel joel@palomar.cts.com