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- Apple II
- Technical Notes
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- Developer Technical Support
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- GS/OS
- #5: Resource Fork Formats
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- Revised by: Matt Deatherage July 1989
- Written by: Matt Deatherage January 1989
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- This Technical Note discusses the resource fork format of GS/OS extended
- files.
- Changes since January 1989: Documented the location of resource fork
- format information.
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- Due to an omission in GS/OS Reference, Volume 1, some developers are not aware
- that the format of the resource fork of any file is reserved by Apple
- Computer, Inc. With the release of System Software 5.0 for the Apple IIGS, a
- Resource Manager is available to manipulate discrete chunks of data stored in
- the resource forks of files. To prevent corruption of media, information
- should only be stored in any resource fork in this format.
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- The Resource Manager should always be used to manipulate the data in resource
- forks. Some utilities may find this impossible and will require direct
- manipulation of resources without the Resource Manager. Information on the
- format of the resource forks is included with the Resource Manager
- documentation in the System Software 5.0 documentation.
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- Further Reference
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- o GS/OS Reference, Volume 1
- o System Software 5.0 documentation (APDA)