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Salvaging MacOS files in a UNIX World
Authored by: Spartacus on Mar 19, '04 11:34:38AM

The resource fork has nothing to do with file type and creator. File type and creator are metadata and the resource fork is just a second place where to store data, in an organised way.



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Salvaging MacOS files in a UNIX World
Authored by: etrepum on Mar 19, '04 11:52:18AM

That is entirely true, however, cross-platform file formats (as in the examples, mpeg and msword) can generally be "recovered" in this simple fashion, as they don't really use the resource fork for anything but document associations and icons.



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