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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: resource forks, encore une fois
Message-ID: <31259@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 May 89 19:55:33 GMT
References: <8905190505.AA19064@obsolete.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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delton@pro-carolina.UUCP (Don Elton) writes:
>
>This is required because you have to
>specify which fork you plan to open when you open a file under GS/OS 5.0. 
>
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>
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Not quite.  The fork parameter has always been one of the options; if not
specified, you get the data fork.  Programs that don't know about resource
forks obviously can't deal with them, but any utility written after GS/OS
was introduced could deal with them successfully - it's just that most of
them don't (including Finder 1.2 on System Software 4.0).

And there is no such thing as GS/OS 5.0 - GS/OS 2.1 is included as part of
System Software 5.0 (continuing the battle to get people to stop calling
every part of the system software "GS/OS" :-) )


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