On 5/9/06 7:29 PM, Peter S Lau didst favor us with:
>> Arguments against using resource forks in certain contexts are
>> sensible, but in the case of custom icons I don't personally see
>> much motivation to change the established practice.
>
> The standard argument would be to copy the item to some windows box
> or data fork only file system and then back to the Mac. Everything
> should just work and in the same state as before... So, the same
> argument could apply here... that the custom icon would not survive
> the foreign copy, a round trip back to the Mac.
So sad. Realistically though, if you copy a custom icon in some manner to a
Windows box you end up with 40K or more of icon data Windows users can't
use. Those auxiliary Mac files like AppleDouble files and .DS_Store files
often do nothing but cause headaches for the people on the Windows side.
Larry
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