Re: Apple Double?


Subject: Re: Apple Double?
From: Patrik Schindler (poc@pocnet.net)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 17:55:18 EDT


At 17:40 Uhr -0400 03.04.2000, Philip Bertuglia wrote:

>Is it true that on most applications the resource fork contains more then
>just he creator information?

To store the creator information there is no resource fork neccessary.
Netatalk stores more than just the resource fork in .AppleDouble files.

>I was under the impression that the
>application uses the information as well. Thus, a file with no resource fork
>is almost totally useless.

This depends on the type of the file. A JPEG file won't need any resource fork. If you add a preview and a finder icon, these things are stored in the resource fork (easy verifyable with ResEdit).

:wq! PoC



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