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From: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English)
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Subject: Re: stdio, THINK C and APPLs
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Date: 29 Dec 90 15:15:30 GMT
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David Hairston writes in a message to All

DH> in an abstract sense, i guess it could be argued that the resource 
DH> fork is merely a specialized folder (or directory) structure 
DH> and therefore should be accessible by fopen/open but i think 
DH> that analogy is a little too simple and misleading (IMO). 

Better to think of the resource fork as a specialized database file that only
the OS knows how to access properly. Maybe YOU can do it, but the OS knows the
 
innards better, so why try to do it yourself?


Lawson
 

 

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