Re: unix or mac-style text files?

[Rob Barris]

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 03:27 PM, William H. Magill wrote:

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 08:50 AM, Chris Nandor wrote:

While they're at it, they might drop file resource forks.

Again, they essentially have. They are still supported because, as with the
CR issue, they cannot just abandon them. But most apps do not have them;
instead, the resource data is in separate files inside the packages. I
don't imagine support for resource forks will be dropped any time soon, but
resource forks aren't really used by new apps.

  ...

Out of all my apps in there, I got hits in maybe a dozen or so, and the only
*Apple* apps were iMovie and DVD Player. It's fairly clear that resource
forks are being used less, and I imagine Apple is discouraging their use,
since they are no longer needed.

I believe that you will find Chris' explanation to be correct -- OS X does
NOT use resource forks. It is only OS 9 compatibility which maintains their existence.

OS X "uses" a resource fork every time it launches a CFM application so it can find the 'cfrg' resource in the app :)

But Chris' point makes sense.

Rob