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


From: Martin A. Brooks
Subject: Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:40:59 +0100

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

-- 
Martin A. Brooks, Clues Ltd
http://www.clues.ltd.uk/





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