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From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <25668@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 25 Jun 91 09:42:14 GMT
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dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:

>You stated that the file type of a Macintosh file was kept in the
>resource fork. It isn't.

Where is it kept, then?  Last time *I* looked, file types were definitely
resources, and thus *had* to be in the resource fork.  Has this changed
in 7.0?  If so, why doesn't EVERYTHING break?

>Our bitmap, drawing, text, formatted text, movie, sound, etc.
>don't need resources, although they can be transfered into one (some of
>them).

Hmm?  Many of those ARE resources, kept in the resource fork.  Are you
saying this is not so?  If so, what about those that are?

>You can just as easily use them on other machines.

Yeah, so?  You have to go through hoops to do so.  I did the Amiga version
of Crystal Quest, and one of the biggest pains in the butt of the entire
conversion was pulling the data out of the resources and converting it
into some usable format on the Ami.  Just how many machines, pray tell,
can handle PICT resources directly?

-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us