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RE: copying file

Philip Holland wrote:
| However, I'm unsure how Apple Java deals with forked files as I don't think
| I've ever tried to copy one with Java!

It probably ignores the resource fork, just as all regular I/O does. (Even on OS 9, regular I/O ignores the resource fork.)


| Ideally, it would be hidden from the ser by the underlying implementation

Unfortunately, that's not possible. A file fork is not merely part of the file's data; it's a completely separate, self-contained byte stream. (What Unix thinks of as "a file" is merely the "data fork" of a Mac file.) Copying all the forks of a file requires a separate operation for each fork.


| I would think that file attributes such as type & creator codes should be
| taken care of with a byte level copy

Why should they? They're not part of the file's data, any more than the modification time or file owner are. To do what you want, the file-reading methods would have to know how the file data is being used, so that file attributes would be included if the file was being read to be copied, but left out if the file was being read to be used for anything else. (The file-writing methods would have to be similarly omniscient.)

Glen Fisher
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