[WinMac] Re: resource fork


Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 21:17:18 -0500


>>Hmmm... without getting into flame wars, I would say that a big thing for
>>artists is ease of use. Here the Mac exels. On the Mac you can open
>>virtually any graphic file that you get without having to rename it (this
>>is one of the things I find most disturbing about any Windows platform:
>>you change the extensions of your file or forget to put one in and good
>>luck trying to open it!).
>
> Unless the Resource Fork gets corrupted... :(

In which case you open it with ResEdit and it usually fixes it.

Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com

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