At 23:57 +0300 on 07/05/2000, Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
>I got a cd contain graphic on a cd burned on Mac.
>So, I download the new kernel compiled it with hfs support as module,
>loaded it and started to browse it.
>The problem is that the extension are not visible and I have to much
>hidden directories visible like ".finderinfo" and "desktop".
>
>Is there any way to clean this mass so I will see a clean tree of the cd
>and all the files extension ?
It doesn't work like that.
A Macintosh file doesn't have an extension. If you think about it
logically, there is no reason that the file name should contain
information about its type - especially not on a gui-oriented system
like the Mac.
The actual type is part of the file's finder information. In fact,
each file of a macintosh consists of three parts: the file data fork,
the file resource fork, and the file's finder information.
This hierarchy doesn't correspond to the hierarchy of unix or DOS, so
those systems represent it as best they can (or emulate it, when they
have to present their own filesystem to a Macintosh using netatalk).
This is the reason why you have the hidden directories. Each
directory that has a file contains that file's finder information
under the hidden subdir '.finderinfo', and the resource fork under
the hidden subdir '.resource', carrying the same name as the file.
The desktop subdirectory represents the volume's desktop. The trash
subdirectory is the volume's trash.
I'm not sure it will help, but try installing HFSUtils.
http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs
Herouth
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