[Metacard] OS X: 'icns' resources?

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Wed Nov 28 13:00:01 EST 2001


Recently, xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:

> windows sucks in more than one way, for example, it can't handle resource
> forks on mac files... you just loose them. You could try with a MacOS
> compatibility fileOS (something that allows reading mac disks) but i doubt
> any Win software is resource compatible (other than photoshop MAYBE...)

This is why packages such as Dave and PCMacLAN are useful -- the resource
forks and filetypes are preserved (PCMacLAN creates a separate res file that
stores the contents of the resource fork).

Regards,

Scott

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