[Gllug] Opening MacBinary files in Linux

tet at accucard.com tet at accucard.com
Thu Jun 6 15:58:29 UTC 2002


>There's no reason why this should be true beyond the usual Word
>version issues. All that's in the resource fork is filesystem
>metadata; none of the document is there

This isn't true, unless you're talking about Word specifically.
Some Mac applications store information in the resource fork.
In fact, I once had to write a utility to extract images from
a Mac resource fork, created by a bespoke application we used,
and display them to the end user...

Tet

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