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From: thomson@utah-cs.UUCP (Richard A Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Feeping Creaturism
Message-ID: <5295@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 00:51:46 GMT
References: <8802181921.AA19069@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <682@sandino.quintus.UUCP> <700@nuchat.UUCP>
Reply-To: thomson@cs.utah.edu.UUCP (Richard A Thomson)
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <700@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <682@sandino.quintus.UUCP>, pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
>Look at the way the Mac is isolated in its
>own pretty little room by its programming model. A large part of this is
>due to the fact that source code on this baby includes a weird proprietary
>chunk of data called the resource fork. The last thing the Amiga needs is
>to duplicate more of the negative aspects of the Mac.

I don't really know what a resource fork is, but a terse explanation by my
friendly mac guru leads me to believe that it's not the demon you make it
out to be.  What's really so wrong with it?  Is source code transfer your
problem?  Apparently you just sent the mac file as two separate ascii files;
one containing the source and the other containing the (possibly uuencoded?)
resources.  Perhaps I'm being a little dense, but what exactly is your
beef with this idea?
						Rich Thomson