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From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Writing random bytes to resource fork (1st Base)
Message-ID: <36444@apple.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Mar-85 19:03:41 EST
Article-I.D.: apple.36444
Posted: Sat Mar 23 19:03:41 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Mar-85 00:08:18 EST
References: <orca.1394>
Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Organization: Macintosh Division, Apple Computer
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Summary: 

In article <orca.1394> davidl@orca.UUCP (David Levine) writes:
>
>My question: How do you write non-resource-formatted data to the resource fork
>of a file?  At the moment, the only language I have is xlisp, but I can
>probably find someone with a C compiler to write the simpleminded program it
>would take to do it... if it's possible at all.  Inside Mac is no help
>whatsoever.  (It must be possible, because 1st Base does it!)

You can access the resource fork of a file in the same manner as the data
fork by opening the file with the call PBOpenRF (in Pascal) or _OpenRF
(assembler).  This is documented in the File Manager Programmer's Guide.
-- 
Larry Rosenstein

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