>>I have an INIT that, on startup, puts a random quote on the screen and I was wondering how could I view the contents of the data fork to add quotes.Can I use Resedit? and if so How?
>
>Use Get File Info in ResEdit to make the file a type TEXT, then use your
>favorite word processor to open. TEXT files store their text in the data
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>fork. ResEdit *cannot* read the data fork (unless there's some feature I
>don't know about).
Use a simple *editor* instead, or you'll be surprised about what stuff
those fancy word processors will put into both forks of your file and
still claim it were 'TEXT'.
Another possibility: to read the text not from the data fork at all,
but from a TEXT resource, which can be edited via ResEdit. (But the
data fork method is simpler to maintain.)
olaf
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