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From: glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mac Disk Reader for NeXT Announced !
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Date: 21 Jan 91 00:56:07 GMT
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In-reply-to: glaeske@plains.NoDak.edu's message of 18 Jan 91 05:19:05 GMT

> and a Mac resource fork is
>pretty worthless to anything but a Mac (and possibly a Mac emulator :-)).

I see. Really don't need the bitmaps from a MacPaint file or icons or
anything else eh?

If I were grabbing Macintosh files, I'd worry about resource on a
case-by-case basis. You can't arbitrarily throw away the resource fork
and expect things to work; it's the Mac app. designer's perogative to put data in the resource fork and it's done quite often.

If you have MacLink on you're Mac, and can stretch a cable between the
mac and the cube, I think you're better off. If not, then the DIT
thing is probably your only recourse.

Nice idea though; wish I had this for an IBM-PC.

-g
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