Re: Macintosh Resource Forks and the BeBox

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From: Fletcher Sandbeck
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 19:57

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>Why not?  By combining the forks, we could get back to a single-fork (i.e.
>more "conventional" *shudder*) file system.  No?

I think the thing to remember is that the resource fork is the extra
part on the Mac.  On a Unix system all you have is the data fork, almost
all files can be read in ASCII if you care to do so.  It seems to me that
Apple provides the data fork in order to be somewhat compatible with
everyone else.  The resource fork and the resource manager is a bonus.

It makes sense to have a text document with raw text in the data fork
and special information about formatting and whatnot in the resource
fork.  That way, if you want to mail the document to a UNIX user you
just grab the data fork and leave the Mac specific stuff behind.

[fletcher]

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From: fms@athena.mit.edu (Fletcher Sandbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: Macintosh Resource Forks and the BeBox
Date: 27 Oct 1995 19:57:10 GMT
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