"Allen; Timothy Paul" wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcus
>Silva wrote:
> > Has anyone tried grabbing, for example, the Amazon Sherlock
> >plug-in and using it with Mozilla, as a Search plug-in? I can only find
> >those binary files for Sherlock, but I have no idea how to get the text
> >based *.src file that Mozilla expects ...
> >
> > Anyone else out there has tried and been sucessfull getting a
> >Sherlock plug-in to work with MOzilla?
>
> Many times. The main fly in the ointment is the Macintosh's habit of storing
> each file as two "forks", the data fork and the resource fork, unlike every
> other computer in the history of the world. This means that when transmitting
> files to each other through a non-Macintosh medium (say, the Internet) the data
> and resource forks must be globbed together in one big lump which is unpacked
> by the Macintosh at the other end.
>
> In case you want the details, the text of the Sherlock plugin is stored in the
> "data" fork.
>
> I don't know how you'd go about unpacking such a file under Windows, but here
> in Linux land I have such useful utilities as "hexbin" and "macunpack" which
> make the process simple.
>
> Some terminology: Macintosh files are usually wrapped up in one or more of the
> following formats: "macbinary", "binhex", and "stuffit". Searching for some of
> these terms, along with "decode", at a search engine such as Google may well
> prove to be productive.
>
> Tim Allen,
> ...who used Google's provided sherlock plugin until one shipped with Moz by default.
Aladdin Systems has added, zip and uuencode to Stuffit.
and they also have a Windows version of Stuffit now.
As for the two forks that Mac uses. PC and other Machines simply ignore
resource Forks. They just use the data fork. The resource information is
simply transferred to tha data fork which PC/UNIX machines use to obtain
data and resorce info.
One advantage of the two fork system is that it makes it very
complicated to write an effective Virus, worm, or Trogan Horse. Since
Mac has been in exsistence there are only about 300 or less of such. On
the other hand on PC's there are zillions and growing by leaps and
bounds everyday. That amd the use of VBS and Active-X as used by Microsft.
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