With it's built in support for mounting network shares over NFS and SMB protocols, MacOS X is great!
I can use Finder (or command line) to mount something like "smb://linuxserver/projects" to "/Users/syb/projects/" and all native MacOS X programs can r/w to the mounted "/Users/syb/projects/" directory.
BUT when I open a Classic application [such as Pagemaker 6.0], I can only see directories/files stored locally or mounted using AppleTalk networking (AFP protocol).
In Linux I can mount NFS, SMB, Appletalk, even FTP and applications don't know/care how/where the actual data for a file is.
Why does Classic environment _NOT_ see all MacOS X files thru a Virtual File System (VFS) that hides how the files are accessed???
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I guess I'm just looking for alternate ways of how to make a Classic App save files to a Linux file server.
I can use Finder (or command line) to mount something like "smb://linuxserver/projects" to "/Users/syb/projects/" and all native MacOS X programs can r/w to the mounted "/Users/syb/projects/" directory.
BUT when I open a Classic application [such as Pagemaker 6.0], I can only see directories/files stored locally or mounted using AppleTalk networking (AFP protocol).
In Linux I can mount NFS, SMB, Appletalk, even FTP and applications don't know/care how/where the actual data for a file is.
Why does Classic environment _NOT_ see all MacOS X files thru a Virtual File System (VFS) that hides how the files are accessed???
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I guess I'm just looking for alternate ways of how to make a Classic App save files to a Linux file server.