Re: Deleting resource forks
Re: Deleting resource forks
- Subject: Re: Deleting resource forks
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 05:57:51 -0700
On Sunday, July 14, 2002, at 12:14 PM, garbanzito wrote:
i find filesystem details fascinating, but the main reason i
suggested thinking in terms of emptying the resource fork
(particularly from a scripting perspective) is that the
prototypical file deletion tool, rm, does *not* work well on
resource forks. i have gotten confirmation of the unexpected
and damaging behavior caused by running rm on
anyfile/..namedfork/rsrc. this may simply be a bug in Apple's
implementation of BSD access to resource forks, but it seems
pretty dangerous.
I do 'man rm' in Terminal and don't see anything related to
resource forks or the suggestion that 'rm x/..namedfork/rsrc'
would be an approved usage. I don't know where Chris got it
from. The actual name of a named resource fork is
"RESOURCE_FORK" and the name of the data fork is "" in the calls
in Files.h but "..namedfork" seems like it would be a different
tactical approach and possibly valid only for packages.
OTOH, in /Developer/Tools there is a utility called RezWack. It
might do the job but I can't figure out how to supply the
correct args.
I think AppleScript should deal with resource forks.
set r to open resource fork for access "some_file"
set eof r to 0
close access r
Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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