Subject: Re: Hidden Files Not Being Copied
From: Ray Zimmerman (rz10@cornell.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 12:35:50 EST
At 10:30 AM -0500 1/18/01, Bill Moran wrote:
>I'm not terribly familiar with Macs, how do you set a file to be
>invisible?
Each file has a set of attributes stored with it indicating whether
it is visible, the file type, creator app, whether it is locked, etc.
I should also mention that on MacOS a filename starting with a . is
NOT an illegal name. Or to get rid of the double negative ... it's
JUST FINE. I have .htaccess files on my Mac and they've never behaved
any differently than files with other names.
The problem is that in *nix the . means it's invisible, whereas on
the Mac it just means that you wanted to call your file .<something>
... netatalk has to try to do what you want and I think it seems to
be doing pretty close to the right thing, though it does seem that it
could take .files (with the exception of .AppleDouble) and treat them
as .files with the invisible bit set (I see no need to change the
name). This way they would be "seen" by the MacOS (but not by the Mac
user) and hence copied along with the enclosing folder.
Thoughts?
Ray
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