WebDAV & FrameMaker Question

["Russ Wyllie" <russ_wyllie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Our department is looking into using the new WebDAV features in 
FrameMaker 7 to implement a simple checkout/checkin setup to manage 
files. So far, it looks really promising, but FrameMaker exhibits one 
annoying little problem.

Our WebDAV server is hosted on Mac OS X Server, and we're using 
FrameMaker 7 on Macs. For every file on the server, the Mac file system 
creates a separate file that begins with a period and an underline 
character, which I presume is a Mac "resource fork" file. For example, 
if my WebDAV server contains a file named procedures.fm, there is also 
a file named ._procedures.fm.

The problem is that the WebDAV server contains a lot of FrameMaker 
files, and all the "resource fork" files are sorted to the top of "Open 
from Server" dialog box that writers use to check out files. Writers 
have to scroll past all these files to get to the actual FrameMaker 
files that they need to check out.

So my question is, does anyone know how to get rid of these files? My 
hunch is that this problem may be solvable in one of two ways:

* Client side fix: Some way of setting FrameMaker to hide the resource 
fork files so that they don't show up in the in the "Open from Server" 
dialog box. (This is how Goliath, another WebDAV client application on 
the Mac, seems to deal with this problem. It has a preference option to 
not display hidden files.)

* Server side fix: Some way setting the WebDAV server not to generate 
the resource fork files in the first place.

Any ideas how to correct this? Thanks for your help.

-Russ Wyllie


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