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Re: Flattening Mac resource files?
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Re: Flattening Mac resource files?


  • Subject: Re: Flattening Mac resource files?
  • From: Esteban Uribe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 23:35:32 -0700

For distribution, you can use something like dropstuff to convert to hqx or bin, there are also MacBinary II tools you can use for this.

Also putting the stuff inside a dmg should do the trick. Even in panther, there is an archive function, which if I remember correctly you can use to compress files. It puts the resource fork image in a separate folder called .resource_fork (I dont remember exactly). On a pc you could see this folder and files within, on the Mac i think it sees the folder and reconstructs the files accordingly.

If this is a document that will be read by the equivalent application on other systems, i would recommend making the file structure of the file such that you do not use the resource fork.

-Esteban

On May 26, 2004, at 8:18 PM, Tito Ciuro wrote:

Hello,

Some Mac files contain a resource fork. The question I have is: how can I "flatten" the resource fork (resource fork-within-data fork) so that I can move the file to other systems? Are there any facilities in Mac OS X that will allow me to do this? I would also need to do the opposite when reconstructing the file again on the Mac side.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

-- Tito
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