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Re: Using a web browser, NFS, etc.

I run into that all the time. In Acrobat Reader's case it seems to be a Carbon fault because it can't get some Finder Info or Resource info. The workaround (in OS X) is to open the Get Info panel, select "Open with Application" and then actually change that file's binding. You can change it right back to Acrobat. Double-click and voila!

The Finder will create a ._FILENAME file to hold the finder info and (still non-existant) resource fork. This seems to provide the information that Acrobat is seeking. The actual PDF file is unchanged. The OS X Finder will do this little trick on NFS or UFS volumes.

I am not sure if this misbehavior is Carbon's fault, Adobe's fault, or even what "Error -39" means. I don't know what bit of finder info (finf) Acrobat is after either. It can't be type and creator, since my PDF files don't have that set even on HFS+ volumes. It is possible that since no finf data exists that the File Manager (or whatever) call fails. Acrobat is not long filename aware either.

I doubt that any of this is related to URL access. Of course Mozilla and IE are both Carbon apps which provide a number of *backwards* compatibility APIs. All of this is wildly of topic for Darwin proper though...

-Chris

On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 06:48 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:

Interesting experiment, Jeff. I also see that Acrobat Acroread seems
to have the same difficulty -- trying to open a PDF file on an
NFS-mounted volume returns an Apple system error of -39, while opening
the same file on the local disk works fine.

Bill

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Chris Douty <email@hidden>
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