preserving resource forks under Windows

[Chris Sheffield]

But does that work on a PC running Windows?  The docs say it doesn't.
That's my problem.  I'm copying the files from a CD (Mac/Windows hybrid) to
a PC hard drive.  Will this still work?

Thanks again,

Chris Sheffield
Software Development
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Subject: Re: preserving resource forks under Windows


Chris Sheffield wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to do this?
> 
> I have an installation program built in Rev.  In one step of the 
> installation, I'm copying certain files to a server, including client 
> setup programs to be run at each network workstation (one for Windows, 
> one for Mac OS X, and one for Mac OS 9).  The Windows and OS X client 
> setup programs work fine, but the OS 9 one does not if I run my server 
> installation on a Windows machine (obviously because the resource 
> forks are not getting preserved).  So is there a way to do this from 
> Rev?  I notice that if I copy a file directly from my Mac to my 
> Windows machine using the Finder, the resource fork is placed in a 
> file named something like "._myfile", which seems to work okay.  Any 
> ideas on how I can make this work using revCopyFile or similar.

You can use the resFile service specified to get and set a resource fork 
on Mac systems:

   put url ("resfile:"&tMyFilePath) into tMyResData

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