Re: [Netatalk-devel] HELP: Request for Information!


Subject: Re: [Netatalk-devel] HELP: Request for Information!
From: Simon Bazley (sibaz@sibaz.com)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 06:44:08 EDT


wasn't there an old post about this showing a site that had tracked the problem down to quark creating temporary files.

It was something like, if you click on a quark document that is on a mounted share, then quark will create the temporary file at that location (on the server), wheras if you go file open, then find the same file in the open dialog, the temprary file is
created on a local file system.

The issue was down to quarks use of its temporary file (which is basically a dump of the quark file in a dodgy order). Quark uses a naughty bit of code that was in early macs file system, that was to do with opening a file, but not closing it, so you
still stored data, but didn't create a file (or something like that). Anyway, Apple say its not something people should use, and most afpd's don't support it (and rightly so), but quark insists on keeping it, as it works locally, and on mac servers.

Or are you talking about soemthing completely different.

Simon



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