copy a image/binary file on a mac

[Kevin Miller]

On 19/1/02 1:11 pm, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com> 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.

We will include a revCopyFile command in 1.1.1 which will copy a file on any
OS including the correct creator type and the resource fork, without loading
the entire file into memory if it is large either.

Kind regards,

Kevin

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