Re: [WinMac] Re: Serving Mac files on a PC Web server
Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]Adobe.COM)
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 19:55:36 -0400
At 11:09 PM -0400 9/11/98, Alex Dearden wrote:
>When you send Mac files to a PC, they lose their resource fork where the
>file's type and creator are stored.
>
You're half right ;).
The resource fork is lost - BUT the type/creator information is
_NOT_ stored in the resource fork. It's stored external to the file in
what is commonly described as "Finder Info". (if you want to get
technical, it's stored in teh catalog block section of the disk format ;).
> Acutally you should be able to drop that file you donwloaded onto
>expander and it should still work, the data is still there!!!
>
That's true!
Leonard
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