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From: cdm@pro-freedom.cts.com (Carl Macdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Resource Forks
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Date: 2 Jun 89 03:08:21 GMT
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Network Comment: to #4714 by unknown

Well lets see what kind of hash I can make of this.  On the Macintosh the
resource forks are usually used to store anything that goes on the screen,
such as text, dialog boxes, etc. This is actually easier to use than it sounds
because the Mac toolbox allows access to the resource fork, such as a tool
that draws a dialog box on the screen from the resource ID you give it. The
big advantage to this is that if you want to change the appearence of the
screen, say for example to make a French or German version of the software,
you make the changes and not have to change or recompile any source code.

As for the implimentation on the GS, I understand that the file itself will
still be the same, it will just have some header information giving the
offsets to the begining of the data and resource forks.

Carl MacDonald, programmer
Central Point Software

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