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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: The Mac's resource fork: does Win 3 have one?
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Date: 2 Jul 90 16:28:43 GMT
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In article <2964@gmdzi.UUCP>, strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
> Is this really that much different from the way resources are handled on the
> Macintosh? 
Probably not, but the Mac also allows you to add resources to things which
weren't designed to have them, like documents. In this way, for example,
MPW can store information about the state a document's window was in,
without messing the file up for a program which only knows about plain text.
It's hard to see how this could be achieved without making resources a
concept explicitly known to the underlying file system.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu