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Re: E/DOS file question
On Fri, 23 Jun 1995 David_A._Vandenbroucke@hud.gov wrote:
> But if I
> do this:
>
> 1. import an archive from MS-DOS--call it "Import.cpt"
> 2. run binhex on the file to make in Mac-ish
> 3. expand the archive and go on my merry way
>
> I find that I have files called import.cpt and %import.cpt on my hard disk.
> I'm guessing that the first is the original, untouched, MS-DOS file. But what
> is the second? Is the Mac-useable file stored in the HFV file, out of harm's
> way? What happens if I now delete the two files?
Every time Executor touches a file on a FAT (DOS filesystem)
volume, it spawns a % file, which is the "resource fork," a purely
Mac-world denizen usually containing things like sounds, built-in fonts,
dialogs, icons, menus, etc. (Play with the included demo Resourcer, a
resource-fork-editor; open some Mac documents and executables and see
what's in them.)
If you extracted the .cpt into a Mac (HFV) volume, then the original
can be deleted, just as you usually delete a .zip file once you've
extracted it elsewhere. Delete the % file while you're at it.
Does anyone else wish that ARDI had chosen a different convention
for resource-fork naming? It's annoying to have a file and its resource not
in adjacent alphabetical order.
(You can tell by the inconsequential nature of my gripes how much
I like Executor.)
Scott
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