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From: earleh@dartvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Delete the resource fork
Message-ID: <7172@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 22:43:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.7172
Posted: Tue Sep 22 22:43:47 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 11:08:44 EDT
References: <933@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM>
Organization: disorganized
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Summary: PBOpenRF, then PBSetEOF, should work

In article <933@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM>, tomc@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM (Tom Carstensen) writes:
> Is there anyway to delete the entire resource fork of a 
> file without deleting the entire file, and then rewriting
> the data fork of the file?
> 
If you open the resource file with PBOpenRF, then use PBSetEOF to make it
zero length, this should work.  Alternately, you could parse the resource
map for the file, use GetResource for each resource type and ID you find
there, then RmveResource to remove it.  The first method sounds trivial,
the second method sounds like an "interesting programming exercise".

Disclaimer: I haven't actually done this...

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