28 Aug
2006
28 Aug
'06
3:53 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre at floodgap.com
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: "File types"
Yes, it's totally transparent. This was very nice for taking 3.5" disks
between my IIsi and the DOS PCs at work back when I sneakernetted everything.
On a FAT volume the fork gets stripped away, so taking the file and putting
it back on the Mac without the resource fork the Mac OS will not know what
to do with it (ruins the file).
> > However, when storing Mac files on, say, a
FAT volume, a hidden folder
is
made to hold the additional data in the resource fork.
This includes
type/creator information.
Ah, OK. So the OS already has provisions to handle it and
hides those details from the user. I.e. it does the things
I was insinuating the user would have to do, manually.