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In article <1697@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>In article <10463@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> clye@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Christopher Lye) writes:
>
>> [comments about Paragon listening to customers..]
>
>Okay, Chris, or Paragon, or anyone else who knows:
>
>I need a word processor and editor (mostly the latter) that DOESN'T DELETE
>in the resource fork of the document. It can add it's own resources allright,
>but what's there has to be there when I save and quit, or else I'm out of the
>game...
>
>The question: Since NISUS seems to be such a good buy, how does it handle the
>resource fork ? I'd really like to know !
>
	I REALLY wish that I could tell you that Nisus handles your request
properly, since it is such a simple (and understandably needed) request, but
I just did some testing with Nisus on both Nisus format and TEXT documents and
when it does a save it does a Delete followed by a Create (and then Create
ResFile for the Nidocs).
	I assume that one of the reasons that they choose to do it this way was
because Nisus uses a VERY interesting document storage structure where the TEXT
is stored as TEXT in the dataFork (and flagged as a TEXT document) while all
of the formatting info (font, size, margins, etc.) are kept in resources in the
resource fork.  What is REALLY cool about this scheme is that even if you go and
mod the text with a text editor (which doesn't delete the res fork), when you
come back into Nisus, the formatting is EXACTLY what you expect.
	
	To answer you other questions as to what WP's or Editors do not delete
the resFork when saving - good question.  I am not aware of any currently
available(!) WP's that do not kill off the whole file before resaving (or in
some cases create a .bak (which may save off your resources, don't know!??!))
but most of the common text editors that I am aware of do not kill of the res
fork, but if they deal with it at all just add in their own.  I know that 
MPW's editor, Think C's editor and my own SigmaEdit do not kill the resFork.

Hope that helps...

>Enjoy the day !
>
>h+
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