27 Jun
2002
27 Jun
'02
4:59 p.m.
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 09:53 AM, James Pearson wrote:
However, do you know why '._' was chosen as the prefix for the resource/finderinfo file when the specs for AppleDouble state '%' ...
The leading "." is the Unix convention for making a file invisible. I think the underscore is to help avoid name collisions. If memory serves, other Unix-based implementations that stored AppleDouble (eg., AU/X and maybe NetATalk) adopted the same naming convention.
-Mark