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Re: Reading resource forks
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Re: Reading resource forks


  • Subject: Re: Reading resource forks
  • From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 10:06:52 -0800

At 12:12a -0800 12/06/2003, Christopher Nebel didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

-- but realize that you'll be getting the raw bytes of the entire resource fork, which you'll then have to interpret yourself, including figuring out where the FOND resource begins and ends. This will be non-trivial.

There is existing code available for a different scripting language, written by Mr. Bugzilla for ProTERM...

(Aren't cryptic messages fun?)


-boo
"Real programmers only need one datatype." --Melissa Reid



On Dec 5, 2003, at 5:01 PM, Will Parker wrote:

Now then - can someone give me an idea of how to open file resources
read-only? I need to grab some esoteric font information from the 'FOND'
resource of font files, and I'd like to do it entirely in AppleScript by
parsing out the file.
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 >Reading resource forks (From: Graff <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Reading resource forks (From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>)

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