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bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
> In article <17567@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> erics@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Eric Schlegel) writes:
> >In article <5169@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> stuart@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (S. D. Ericson) writes:
> >>I had a finder crash the other day while copying files from
> >>my harddisk to the floppy drive.  I finally traced it down
> >>to files with names that began with "./" .  
> >This is a known feature (??) of the Mac. A file that starts with a dot is
> >assumed to be a driver resource, and if you try to open it, the system
> >tries to open a driver in the system file. and BOOM...

> >You just have to not name files starting with a dot.
> 
> Hm, this could be more of a problem than first meets the eye...
> 
> Unix happens to like files with periods at the beginning of their
> names.
> Now, ordinarily, this would cause no problem for the Finder, because
> the Finder shouldn't mess with Unix files.  But now we have
> AppleShare...
> 
> I regularly use AppleShare to mount my Unix directory on my Mac over
> EtherTalk.  This gives me easy access to my Unix files (and makes it
> really easy to use files pulled off comp.binaries.mac!).  Does this
> mean that if I dare try to do anything with my .login, or .cshrc, or
> .emacs, or .anythingelse from the Finder, my Mac will go bye-byes?
> 

The initial diagnosis of the problem is faulty, or at least not complete.
Unfortunately, I don't know what the cause of the first poster's symptoms
is myself.

In the never ending process of resolving INIT conflicts, many people
rename files with a "." at the beginning ("." is alphabetically prior
to "A", and is visible, unlike "<space>"). 

This has never caused Finder copy problems.

As to Appleshare conflicts, I just copied several files with dot-prefixes
and dot-slash-prefixes from my internal HD to local and remote A-share
servers and back; no problems reported.

This is on 6.0.3, Multifinder, SE/30,  loads-o-inits.

Look elsewhere for the solution.



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