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NAME
kats, kscp, ksmv, ksrm - K-AShare File Manipulation
Utilities
SYNOPSIS
kats [ -scipSb ] [ -TC type ] [ filename ... ]
kats -o [ dirname ]
kscp file1 [ file2 ... ] target
ksmv file1 [ file2 ... ] target
ksrm file ...
DESCRIPTION
These routines let you copy, delete, move and set AppleShare
attributes for K-AShare files.
K-AShare stores AppleShare specific information, such as
file Type and Creator and the resource fork, in several
utility files. This information will be lost if you use
cp(1), mv(1) and rm(1), to move K-AShare files around a unix
filesystem. If you use kscp, ksmv, and ksrm, the AppleShare
info will be moved or deleted as necessary.
Kats is an administrative program used to view and set
various AppleShare file attributes, including the invisible
and copy-protected attributes and the Type and Creator
fields. Invisible files and directories will not be
visible to Appleshare clients. The Macintosh finder will
refuse to copy copy-protected files. Directories cannot be
copy protected.
When no options are supplied, kats prints out information
either about the specified files or all files in the current
directory if no files are specified.
The attributes are in the .HSancillary file rather than in
the file itself. Only the owner of files and root are
allowed to change attributes.
OPTIONS
-s Set the requested attributes. This is the default.
-c Clear the requested attributes.
-i Make the file invisible.
-b The file has a bundle.
-S The file can be shared.
-l The file is locked.
-o Check for and delete "orphaned" resource forks from
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dirname (or the current directory if dirname is
absent). Orphaned resource forks are .HSResource
directory entries that have no corresponding data
files. Theses files will not appear in K-AShare
volumes. They can crop up when users use cp, mv and rm
instead of kscp, ksmv, and ksrm to manipulate K-AShare
files. This option has been superceded by the
dtrebuild(1m)-clean option.
-p Copy protect the file.
-T type
Change the Macintosh file type.
-C type
Change the Macintosh file creator.
FILES
*/.HSancillary File for additional file
information needed by
Macintosh.
*/.HSResource/* Directory for storing the
resource fork of files
EXAMPLES
Print information about all files in the current directory:
kats
Make the file foo copy-protected:
kats -ps foo
Make the file foo a TeachText file:
kats -T TEXT -C ttxt foo
SEE ALSO
K-AShare Administrator's Guide
ksd(1m)
CAVEATS
Once files are typed by K-AShare, the filetype(5) database
will not be consulted. If you change the rules for typing a
particular type of file, it will not change the type of
already existing files of that type. The katype(1) program
can be used to check the validity of your filetype(5)
database. Kats shows you the files as K-AShare currently
has them typed.
BUGS
Kats normally should be run in the directory where the
specified files resides (although if one of the filename
args has a pathname component, Kats will change to that
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directory before processing).
If you are not the super-user and you copy or move files
that you do not own between different directories, the
permissions of the resulting files may not be set correctly.
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