Thanks Ben, and yes - I'll be using the new stuff :)
Regards, Paul Johnson Applewood House www.applewoodhouse.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Combee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 11:39 PM Subject: Re: .rsrc Zero Bytes > At 03:30 PM 8/5/2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > >Can someone explain to me why this is btw ? I find it a total pita so I > >guess its a Mac hangover. > > > >Flame on. lol :) > > Totally Mac OS hangover. When the tools were originally created, they > reused many of the existing tools done for Mac 68K development. This > worked OK in the context of Mac OS and its file system, but didn't > translate well to Windows. > > RESOURCE.FRK is a convention from Apple's original PC floppy disk > read/write software, and it got reused in the Altura porting library that > was used to get much of this code hosted on the PC. > > This was one of the main reasons I did the Palm OS 68K linker in V9; it > allows a user to ditch the entire Mac OS resource-based tool chain if desired. > > -- > Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead > Palm OS programming help @ www.palmoswerks.com > > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
