File Recognition

One of my main uses for RISC OS is to confirm that my websites still work on RISC OS browsers. When I installed Virtual Acorn I set up a symbolic link to my websites directory (instructions on how to do this are in a thread I started in the RPCEmu forum: I think it was called ‘a hint for Mac users’). This worked marvellously: VA recognized my html files as html files and browsers loaded them correctly, allowing me to see if I needed to change anything before uploading to websites.

Unfortunately, RPCEmu sees my html files as text files. If I set type to html, RISC OS adds a suffix, which means MAC OS X cannot recognize them as html files.

A fairly minor problem: doesn’t take long to set type for RO then remove the suffix for MAC OS, but I’d still rather not have to do it.

So RPCEmu is putting “,faf” on the ends of the filenames?

Is it a problem with your MIMEMap file? I think whether the suffix is needed may depend on whether .html is a recognised extension in the MIMEMap file. That’s certainly how it’s implemented with some other things like the SunFish NFS client, but perhaps RPCEmu has not implemented it like this? I may be talking rubbish.

You may be better off in the RPCEmu forum on this site, or asking on the RPCEmu e-mail list.