Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!apple!autodesk!glang From: glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Forks? Message-ID: <975@autodesk.COM> Date: 30 Nov 90 07:16:26 GMT References: Distribution: na Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA Lines: 14 In-reply-to: mdixon@parc.xerox.com's message of 29 Nov 90 17:44:57 GMT >no, NeXT files don't have forks. standard unix file attributes (e.g. >creation & modification dates, length) are stored separately from the >file contents; they're available through a set of system calls. Ah but this isn't standard Unix, it's Mach, and it's much better about this sort of thing. Icons, interface builder objects, sounds and the like are stored in sections of named segments of an object file. You can get access to these pieces of data through low-level mach calls or more likely through appkit calls that know about the most interesting kinds of these objects (windows, IB classes, icons, etc.). - g