"File types"

28 Aug 2006

...
   I would think
even a UFS filesystem could emulate that.  
 Where would you hide the creator attributes?  Or, are you
 uggesting a kludge workaround (e.g., change the "extension"
 to something unique; build some middleware that consults
 a user-maintained table of creator attributes; etc.)? 
I haven't looked into this because my Macs all use HFS+, so I don't know how
Mac OS X emulates resource forks on a UFS filesystem (perhaps Zane or Doc do).

However, when storing Mac files on, say, a FAT volume, a hidden folder is
made to hold the additional data in the resource fork. This includes
type/creator information.

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