Re: Hidden Files Not Being Copied


Subject: Re: Hidden Files Not Being Copied
From: Ray Zimmerman (rz10@cornell.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 13:01:15 EST


At 12:35 PM -0500 1/18/01, Ray Zimmerman (yes, I know that's me) wrote:
>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).

After thinking through it a bit more I think you would need to strip
the '.' for the Mac side as suggested by Bryn Hughes in order to make
it 2-way transparent.

        Ray



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