[softwarelist] Re: SparkFS 1.41 (RISC OS) - Zip size max?
From: Alan Adams <alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:53:02 +0100
In message <7184fce04e.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Martin Devon <martin.devon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <4ee0fb9e8edfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Dave Symes <dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In article <a38ffae04e.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Martin Devon <martin.devon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > At present I have an external USB Hardrive connected to the XP PC, on
>>> > to which I backup XP PC stuff and via LanMan98, and stuff from this
>>> > SARPC, but in order to do that I *have* to archive (Uncompressed) all
>>> > the stuff from this machine, otherwise it ends up in crap order, like
>>> > no filetypes.
>>
>>> Surely there must be something astray with your LanMan98 setup, eg do
>>> you have a current Mappings file inside LanMan98?
>>
>> Yes it does have a mappings file inside LM98.
>> I've also got Notypes set to Y
>> I can't remember why now, there was some reason.
>> I guess if I change that to N it will preserve all the filetypes, but I
>> still wonder why I set it to Y in the first place.
>
> That looks like it.
> If you are minded to experiment, try running an NFS server on your PC.
> Sunfish is twice as fast as LanMan for write operations.
>
Generally you want notypes set to no.
However, if
1 you want to use the files from both RISC OS and Windows
and
2 you have given file extensions (e.g. /TXT) to all relevant files
and
3 you haven't got correct definitions for ALL PC filetypes inside
Lanman98
then you might want to turn notypes on.
The reason is that files without extensions which also don't pick up a
type from the mappings file will gain a ,nnn tail, which Windows
doesn't like.
However with notypes set, you can't handle RISC OS applications
because the runimage, sprites, run and obey files all end up as text
filetypes (when seen from RISC OS).
--
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.nckc.org.uk/
