Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple IIgs future Message-ID: <9559@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 1 Feb 89 22:50:26 GMT References: <8901291814.aa20287@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <9547@smoke.BRL.MIL> <25074@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 5 In article <25074@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes: [examples of using "resource forks"] But all those could just as easily have been achieved by using ordinary data files. Why is a "split personality" file particularly useful?