Subject: Locating Mac Volumes in the Unix Filesystem...
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Peter M. Pundy <peterp@strider.andyne.on.ca>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/06/1995 08:10:07
I'm in search of a few opinions.  I've just about completed a version of
'rcp' which will run on a macintosh.  For now, I faked out an inetd and
rshd and combined it with rcp code to allow the mac to be the 'server' of a
Unix issued rcp command.  (Most of the transferring is working -- only
recursive to the mac is broken)

Anyway, this has caused me to write a conversion routines to translate
pathes and filenames between Mac and Unix grammar/syntax.  Everything is
peachy until I try to answer the following two questions:

1) Where in the unix file-system do I find Mac Volumes?  Ideally, we need one
   standard place for this.

    Possible answers:
                        "Volume1:" --> "/dev/Volume1"
               - or -   "Volume1:" --> "/Mac/Volume1"

2) To what Macintosh path does the unix path "/" map?

    Possible answers:
                        "/" --> "{BootDisk}:"
               - or -  ???


What are your opinions?





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