copy a image/binary file on a mac

[Geoff Canyon]

At 5:01 PM +0100 1/19/02, Klaus Major wrote:
>But the OS looks for the information about the "Type" (what kind of file is it)
>and "Creator" code (what app created that file) INSIDE that namely file.
>
>These info is stored in the "resource-fork" of an file.

File type and creator are stored in the directory structure by the OS, not in the resource fork. Note that a SimpleText file has no resource fork, but does have a type and a creator.

regards,

Geoff