On Jun 16, 2006, at 12:49 UTC, Tony Spencer wrote: > I think you are missing it a bit. The data fork and resource fork > under Classic were in reality two separate files, which is why there > was often a problem with resources transferring files from non-Mac > networks: only the data fork file was copied and not the resource > fork file as well.
No, the various forks of a multi-fork file really are, in fact, separate forks in a single file. The reason only the data fork was copied to non-Mac networks is that the network interface was written specifically to copy only the data fork, under the assumption that foreign OSes wouldn't be able to make any sense out of the resource fork anyway. But both forks are still, both at the file system level and to the classic OS, a single file. Best, - Joe -- Joe Strout -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verified Express, LLC "Making the Internet a Better Place" http://www.verex.com/ _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
