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Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support
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Mark Burgess |
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Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:45:32 +0200 (MEST) |
On 18 Aug, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 13:28, Mark Burgess wrote:
>> David - thanks for your comprehensive patch. Can you tell me what
>> Resource FOrks means?
>
> Macs split a file into two parts, a data fork and a resource fork. The
> data fork can be thought of as the apoplication itself, the resource
> fork will contain things like icons (for displaying in the Finder) or
> custom dialogs used by the application.
>
> There's a neat program called resedit for the Mac that's used to
> manipulate these forks.
>
> It's been a while since I used Macs, but I hope this helps to explain.
>
> Regards
>
So what does the patch do and how do people use it?
M
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- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, Mark Burgess, 2003/08/18
- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, David Botsch, 2003/08/18
- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, Dave Botsch, 2003/08/18
- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, Daniel Pittman, 2003/08/18
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- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, Dave Botsch, 2003/08/18
- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, John Valdes, 2003/08/19
- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, Daniel Pittman, 2003/08/19
- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, Mark . Burgess, 2003/08/19
- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, David Douthitt, 2003/08/21