Subject: RE: Hidden Files Not Being Copied
From: David R Bosso (dbosso@ltsc.ucsb.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 14:19:21 EST
--On Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:47 AM -0800 "Vaughn, George"
<GVaughn@IrwinBF.com> wrote:
> Macs don't create files without resource forks. If a file exists on a
> MacOS filesystem (FS), it has a resource fork. If a file is copied to a
> MacOS FS without a resource fork, one is created as soon as MacOS looks
> in the directory (this is why MacOS takes a while for DOS-formatted disk
> contents to appear, it's creating resource forks for the contents of the
> viewed directory).
Woah, I think you're confusing resource forks with Finder information.
Resource forks are _not_ ubiquitous. Maybe you've never tried opening a
file with Resedit that does not have a resouce fork and recieved the
following dialog:
"The file 'filename' has no resource fork. Opening it will add one. Do you
wish to open it?
-David
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