On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 06:01 AM, Roger Shufflebottom wrote: > At 5:20 pm -0700 28/12/02, Andrew Main wrote: > >> Don't believe there is an X equivalent; under the semi-Maclike >> surface, it's a _completely_ different operating system. No resource >> forks, to begin with; everything is data. > > So what, when I copy files from my OS 10.2 PB on to a PC (which I > need to do regularly) are all the duplicate files (of a smaller size) > that travel along for the ride and show up (usually confusing my > wife) when the CDR/Zip/Memory card is opened on the PC? I was told > (either on this list or another) that these were a hangover from the > data fork/resource fork Mac OS thing. Any opinions? > Correct me if I'm wrong, but there still is a resource fork in OS X, it's simply a matter of file association data is not limited to the resource fork. that's why you can save a word document without the .doc extension and it will still retain it's association with word.
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