[OS X TeX] Unix expert help needed

[Enrico Franconi]

On 29 May 2007, at 15:25, Robert Bruner wrote:

> Can someone point to a quick  tutorial on what these .DS_Store and
> resource fork files ('files' ?) are?  As an antiquated BSD Unix user,
> these are unfamiliar to me, and the quick bit of Googling I did to
> try to learn about them didn't trn up much that was useful.

On .DS_Store:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.DS_Store
(containing references to more technical articles)
http://arno.org/blog/2006/09/on-origins-of-dsstore.html
(the guy who invented the .DS_store directories at Apple)

On resource files:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appledouble
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106510
http://users.phg-online.de/tk/netatalk/doc/Apple/v1/
(the last is quite technical)

cheers
--e.

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