[Gllug] Opening MacBinary files in Linux

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 6 Jun 2002, tet at accucard.com wrote:
>>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.

Not Word specifically, but no non-braindead Mac application stores
data in the resource fork - AIR Apple deprecate it quite heavily.

Surprisingly, Microsoft appear to have written non-braindead software
- at least in this respect.

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

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