On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:01:52PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: > > > It's a font "suitcase", and IIRC the font data is actually in > > the "resource" fork. At least under Mac OS X, fontforge seems > > to be able to deal with these. If you have the file on a > > non-Mac OS machine it may well be corrupt, since non-Mac > > filesystems do not preserve the resource fork data. > > This file was sent to me by a friend, from a Mac computer, by > e-mail, and then saved on my ext3 HD. Any danger that it was > corrupted, or incomplete?
Often old Mac email programs will send both the data fork and resource fork as attachments when sending email. You might need a good mail reader like mutt which can let you select which mime element you want to save in order to get the resource fork saved as its own file. Rich -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
