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From: mikeoro@hubcap.clemson.edu (Michael K O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Creating a Resource Fork
Message-ID: <6956@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 89 00:48:49 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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No, i don't just want to know how to create a resource fork.  Obviously,
i'd just use CreateResFile.  What i am trying to do is open the resource
fork for an existing file, but a file which currently doesn't have a
resource fork.  Therefore, if i use OpenResFile or OpenRFPerm, they return
-1 because there isn't a resource fork.  If i call CreateResFile, it thinks
i want to overwrite the existing file and it returns an error.

So how to i Create the resource fork so that i may open it and copy some
resource to it from another file?  What is the trick, or am i just 
thinking completely backwards?  I looked at the Tech Notes and didn't seem
to find anything of great help.

Mike O'Rourke