That's right, and the resource paradigm Palm OS is built
around was also borrows from Mac OS... Indeed, if you've
been a crude C Mac OS programmer, you find Palm OS API
more familiar ;-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Burmeister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:50 AM
Subject: RE: Form is shiften to the right
> > From: John Stephenson
> >
> > Ok. So the next logical question is: why are resource file(s) so darn
> > complicated ( on Win2k the Resource.frk directory was hidden )?
> > Why can't all of the information be kept in a single file?
> >
>
> It could be on Windows, but Macs store files with a separate "data fork"
and
> "resource fork". An .rsrc file consists entirely of resources, so the
"data
> fork" is empty. Since MetroWerks' CodeWarrior appears to have started
life
> as a Mac program, it seems that they just maintained the same file
structure
> for the Windows version.
>
>
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