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From: pfr654@csc.anu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: The Mac's resource fork: does Win 3 have one?
Message-ID: <2322.268f7cca@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 2 Jul 90 16:56:42 GMT
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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I've read lots of stuff about windows 3.0 and have heard quite a lot from a 
Mac freind who has to use IBM machines at work (he is busy installing win 3 
on lots of IBM type machines).

But, one thing that strikes me about the Mac, from a software point of 
view, is the nice thing known as the resource fork and ResEdit etc.

Apparently (and I have no facts on this, so someone should correct me) win 
3 requires lots and lots of disks (I heard 50MB worth) to do the sort of 
stuff that ResEdit/Font/DA mover do?

How easy or otherwise can it be to translate a program without the Resource 
Fork?

Do any other computer systems use such a method of programming?-- 
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Phil Ryan                                         
ANU Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics 
Canberra, Australia                               
pfr654@csc.anu.oz.au   phone:(61 6) 249 4678   fax:(61 6) 249 0741