Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support

[Mark Burgess]

On 18 Aug, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 13:28, Mark Burgess wrote:
>> David - thanks for your comprehensive patch. Can you tell me what
>> Resource FOrks means? 
> 
> Macs split a file into two parts, a data fork and a resource fork. The
> data fork can be thought of as the apoplication itself, the resource
> fork will contain things like icons (for displaying in the Finder) or
> custom dialogs used by the application.
> 
> There's a neat program called resedit for the Mac that's used to
> manipulate these forks.
> 
> It's been a while since I used Macs, but I hope this helps to explain.
> 
> Regards
> 


So what does the patch do and how do people use it?
M

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