Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 20:04:50 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> To: Michael Beckmann <petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Macintosh filesystem features Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951218194938.14376A-100000@haven.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <v02130501acfbbaed0895@[130.83.177.7]>
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On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Michael Beckmann wrote: > > - Most files, have a resource fork and an empty data fork > >(executables), or a data fork and an empty resource fork (documents), > > Most files have both, except for something like TIFF or JPEG. Can you give an example, but from what I've seen, most files have either the resource fork empty, or the data fork empty. > > Shouldn't these things be stuffed into the executable file? On Macs, > > Absolutely not. This is a feature that makes the Mac really stand out in > this regard. You can do miraculous things with ResEdit, which you could > never do if the additional Resources were kept in the executable binary. > But you still have one single file to double-click and launch; easy to > handle and easy to understand for non-computer-experts. Huh? I don't follow... resources are not kept in the executable binary, but you still have a single file to launch? Code segments are resources themselves, so resouces are kept in the executable file. Resedit is pretty much the same as Windows resource editors. Except that executable code is not handled as resources, other than that, all GUI elements, etc, and arbritrary data can be handled as resources too, with only one file. > >all code and resources is stuffed into the resource fork of the > >executable anyways, and the data fork is empty. > > This is wrong. PowerPC binaries are usually kept in tha data fork, while > the Resources are all in the Resource Fork. Why aren't PowerPC binaries in the resource fork with the 68k binaries, with a different resource type? Tom
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