Re: I can get anything to talk to anything! :-)

[Marsha <menacechgo@aol.com>]

mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in
20020118190953.08608.00003993@mb-ch.aol.com:">news:20020118190953.08608.00003993@mb-ch.aol.com: 

>>2) The auxiliary-type information seems to be flipped when a file is
>>   created.  I tried setting a ShrinkIt archive to the correct types
>>   ($E0/$8002); it came up with auxtype $0280 instead.  Telling Davex
>>   to set the auxtype to $0280 set it to the proper $8002.  This would
>>   appear to be a big-endian/little-endian disagreement someplace. 
> 
> Ah, but the format "on the wire" is big-endian, so one "end" is either
> skipping a step or doing it twice.  ;-)
> 

I think I have figured out a fix for the problem, unfortunately it requires 
a recompile of netatalk.
(but first I'll need a day to try out this hack )
If it does work, I'll submit it to the developers to incorporate.

Marsha