Re: Macintosh Resource Forks and the BeBox

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From: mjp3783
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 00:45

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In article <60564050@sloppy.rt66.com>, "John Millington" <sloppy@sloppy.rt66.com> writes:
>David Findley wrote in comp.sys.powerpc about "Re: Macintosh Resource Forks
>and the BeBox":
>(Sorry, this is getting a little off-topic for the BeBox, and definately
>off-topic for the PPC chips...)

And even more off topic for comp.sys.amiga.programmer. Please kill this
thread!!!

>
>It seems to me like a resource fork is just a file with a very standardized
>structure, like IFF.  Why can't the data fork be _included_ in this
>structure?  If the file is a program, it could have an "executable" chunk.
>(Or better yet, a 68k executable chunk, a PPC executable chunk, etc.)  If
>the file is a word-processor document, it could have a text chunk.  And,
>of course, unlimited combinations.
>
>Why not?  By combining the forks, we could get back to a single-fork (i.e.
>more "conventional" *shudder*) file system.  No?
>
>   Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,
>      Sloppy

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From: mjp3783@vaxb.isc.rit.edu
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: 30 Oct 1995 00:45:51 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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