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Re: Dot files


  • Subject: Re: Dot files
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:09:58 -0500
  • Thread-topic: Dot files

On 6/19/06 13:43, "Rick Gordon" <email@hidden> wrote:

> While Apple has (mostly successfully) attempted to deprecate the usage of
> resources in files since OS X, many Classic programs use resources in ways
> that are critical to the functionality of the document. Styled TextEdit files
> are an easy example of this. The formatting and coloring is held as resource
> fork information. So is custom frame data in QuarkXPress 4 files.

OS X clippings use resource forks, as does LaunchServices when you set a
default application for a file or files

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"Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone."
- Pyrrhus, King of Epirus


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