Re: How do you flatten a Mac file?

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From: Chris Wood
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 00:00

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In article <kqyM4GA5D3h1Ewzq@atomor.demon.co.uk>, Tony Morgan
<tonym@atomor.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <0eDu$KABCuh1EwDc@macsandrelax.demon.co.uk>, Paul Kerin
><Paul@macsandrelax.demon.co.uk> writes
>>The GIFs and JPEGs I create in Photoshop on my Mac shrink when they are
>>moved to my PC and back again (they lose the resource fork from the
>>file) They still work fine, just no custom icon etc.
>*Shrink* and *resource fork* are new terms to me... are these
>Photoshop/Mac thingies?

Yep, with a Mac file, a 'resource fork' is also saved, containing,
usually information about the file (in it's basic form), including any
customer icons that the file may have.

As a result you can't download a mac executable (or equivalent) on the
PC, then copy it using disk to the Mac, as it won't work (PC doesn't
have the resource fork bit).

Makes things increadibly annoying.
-- 
Chris Wood
<http://www.ccg-limited.co.uk/> - CCG Limited 
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Subject: Re: How do you flatten a Mac file?
Date: 1998/06/17
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