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Re: checking out mac resource forks, file checkout order

From: Stephen Davis <stephendavis_at_mac.com>
Date: 2006-05-21 04:09:22 CEST

On May 19, 2006, at 8:42 PM, Richard Stephens wrote:

> Mac OS does the same thing on FAT32 that it does with UFS: create
> a ._ file containing a binary copy of the data in the resource
> fork. Unfortunately, removing resource forks from this project is
> not an option, at least not in the short term. The app we are
> developing is a decade old, and has 200+ dialogs and countless
> strings stored in resource forks. We hope to move it to
> using .nib's but this would take a lot of time and effort and bring
> no change as far as our users are concerned.

Another option is to convert the resource files to data fork
resources which can be done with the tools inside /Developer/Tools
(Rez, ResMerger). That is certainly simpler than switching off of
Resources entirely. We did that at work years ago when X was first
becoming important. All the tools can deal with data fork resources
so this shouldn't break anything.

hth,
stephen

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