Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!bh1e+ From: bh1e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Brendan Gallagher Hoar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Resource Forks? Message-ID: Date: 22 Jul 89 01:04:41 GMT References: <33316@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 Hmmm.. On the Mac, does the CODE (ID=0) resource get executed automatically by the op sys, or does it get called by the DATA fork? Let me rephrase that. If a Mac file has a CODE (ID 0) resource, is the DATA fork executed before it? Some mac viri (viruses?) move the original CODE ID 0 resource to some other resource # and inserted their own code in ID 0. Following the train of thought (I know, mine is really hard to follow...even by me!), is there a mechanism in GS/OS that loads code from the resource forks of programs before executing the code in the data fork? Reply only if my rambling makes sense to you...I'm a bit tired right now... :) bh1e+@andrew.cmu.edu