> He indicated he was working on Mac OS, which uses a file system with > embedded resource forks, rather than having them stored out-of-file.
Last time I looked at the macintosh filesystem (which, admittedly was a long time ago) the HFS stores files in two "forks", a data fork (containing the bag-o-bits of the file) and a resource fork, containing the same style resources as a Palm program. The file reference that applications use is actually the bag-o-bits, with the system handling the requests for resources seamlessly. The resources -are- stored in a seperate file, as can be seen with a byte editor, in a hidden directory in each directory on disk. It's hidden in a much more effective way than DOS's hidden bit - the OS itself masking certain directories and files from the view of everything. Another example of this is the desktop - it's a folder in your bootup drive. Of course, all of this changes after OS 9, or not, I'm not sure. I had a long time ago a program to view the true contents of an HFS partition, and it showed me resource.frk entries. But the end result is the same - the resources "appear" to be in the same file as the data. If your backup program doesn't know about these special files, you'll loose all the resources in the system. You wouldn't be able to even boot that way. Selective data loss is an odd problem... -- Matthew (Darkstorm) Bevan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Margin Software, NECTI. http://www.marginsoftware.com Re-inventing the wheel, every time. - What this world needs is a good five-dollar plasma weapon. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
