Re: Data fork of compiled scripts
Re: Data fork of compiled scripts
- Subject: Re: Data fork of compiled scripts
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 15:35:10 -0700
At 5:56 -0400 8/25/01, Victor Yee wrote:
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Just out of curiosity, is it safe to write to the data fork of a compiled
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script?
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I checked in a text editor and it doesn't appear to have anything in
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there, but don't know if it would affect the stability of the script to
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write something there. I don't have anything particular in mind, but
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thought there might be some future uses.
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This is under Mac OS 9.
Since you say "future," I would recommend against it (there shouldn't be
any present problems in Mac OS 9 and below, except that your data could
well go away when you edit the script, and that could differ on an
editor-by-editor basis: disconcerting during development).
But "the future" has no resource forks (it has separate files with the
resource stuff in those files).
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA