On 5/24/07 6:43 AM, "Barry Wainwright"  wrote:

> Yes, apple mac files have two forks. It looks like you are using
> 'appledouble' as your encoding method, which is fine for mac & windows
> users, except that windows users get the empty resource fork file showing as
> a second data file (in most cases, certainly when document files are being
> sent, the resource fork can be safely discarded)

I am using Appledouble.
 
> The work-round it to inform your recipients to ignore the empty file,

Have done that if the recipient asks about the empty file.

>or to
> use base64 encoding which will effectively ignore the resource fork - OK for
> most files being sent to windows.

Might try base64 when I send to pcs only - if I remember.
Thanks for the comments.
George


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