[Gllug] Opening MacBinary files in Linux

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 6 Jun 2002, mriscott at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>Typically, mac formats will store different stuff in data and resource
>forks - so you wouldn't necessarily be able to open them with windows
>word, let alone abiword.  You might expect to get text-without-pictures
>or something, but you may well just get something unreadable.

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, and if the data fork can be
extracted (which it can with the hexbin/binhex tools for real OSes) it
can then be looked at - with antiword, ideally. The Mac filesystem
doesn't make the document magically unreadable.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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