[Gllug] AppleDouble file?

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Tethys announce to the hordes:
> It's been many *many* years since I've had to parse an Apple resource
> fork on Unix, but from memory, look at the 4 octets starting at offset
> 512 in the file. That should give you the chunk type (.e.g., PICT for
> Apple images), to indicate what's in the file.

Aye, apple do some very wasteful things with files, like embedding
thumbnails in their resource forks. Rather silly really.

I suppose in the old days of the LCII, it might've saved a lot of time and
processor to do it that way though.

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