Re: Format: Data vs. Resource
Re: Format: Data vs. Resource
- Subject: Re: Format: Data vs. Resource
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:34:21 -0800
On Mar 12, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 3/12/06 1:44 AM, "Gnarlodious" <email@hidden> wrote:
What are the relative pros and cons of the "Resource Fork" script
versus the
"Data Fork" script"? Is Apple moving in one direction? I confess I'm
befuddled by the option.
...The way of the future is Data Fork scripts (these are more Unix-
y, I guess)
and Bundle script applications (applets).
Paul is correct in that data-fork-only files are preferred, but it
has nothing to do with being Unix-y -- it has to do with information
surviving across foreign file systems. Mac OS's multi-fork files
worked great as long as Macs only talked to other Macs, but that's
often not the case now, thanks to things like email, web servers, and
non-Mac file servers. The rest of the world is slowly catching on
that data might be more than just a name and a stream of bytes, but
it's still considered unwise to rely on that.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
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