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From: kraig@biostr.washington.edu (Kraig Eno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Manipulating SND resources
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Date: 27 Feb 91 23:13:31 GMT
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I just saw some questions and answers about reading strings from resource 
files, and I'd like some advice about a related task.  I'm storing lots 
(10MB or so) of SND resources and would like to get them from a file 
server instead of having them all in my stack (actually it's a SuperCard 
project).  Anyway, the hard part is that the file server is NOT a 
mountable one, I get data from it via MacTCP -- which just gets me a 
stream of bytes.  So, I'd like to be able to generate a resource fork on 
the fly or something along those lines.  Better yet would be an XCMD to 
play a sound that's stored in a HyperTalk variable, and ignore resources 
entirely.  Any ideas?

Kraig Eno, kraig@biostr.washington.edu
"Problems generate new knowledge" - M. Usui