Subject: Re: Apple Double?
From: Keith Lamont (keith@webwalla.com)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 23:18:36 EDT
No disagreement there. Resource forks are an essential part of the
Mac OS, and should preserved.
>Hi Keith,
>----------
>>From: Keith Lamont <keith@webwalla.com>
>>To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
>>Subject: Re: Apple Double?
>>Date: Mon, Apr 3, 2000, 2:58 PM
>>
>
>> Application files contain their (68K) code in the resource
>>fork. Resource forks are more used by application files than by data
>>files.
>
>True, while it is mostly applications and their extensions/plugins I've seen
>lots of other files store little resources so I'd be *really* carefull
>before wiping out resource forks. Prefs files in particular often store info
>in resources.. then there are of course resources tagged into source code
>files to help editors keep track of state... and ckid's for projector if
>anyone else remembers what that is... <G>
>
>
>TJ
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