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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: 128 Byte res fork header usage?
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.231628.26239@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 90 23:16:28 GMT
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In article <1990Oct13.215743.1@mel.cipl.uiowa.edu> wolf@mel.cipl.uiowa.edu writes:
>I thought I had read in IM I that there is a 128 byte header area to all
>resource forks which could be used by the application.  How does one use that
>area (say for storing a name, date or the like)?
>
>I don't recall reading anything else in IM I which talked about it.  Is it easy
>to reach via standard pascal or is reached by inline programming or what?

Apple says you can't use it.  (in the tech notes-- Don't use the resource
application bytes for data).  You get to it with File Manager calls, usign
OpenRF instead of Open.
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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