preserving resource forks under Windows

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Chris Sheffield <revlist at cableone.net> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris Sheffield
> 

Hi Chris,

Your best bet is to save the files as .sit files using
DropStuff, and let the end-user unpack them on his/her
own machine.
Even if you roll your own installer and save the
resource fork into a custom property :
--
  set the uDataFork of btn "Foobar" to \
      URL ("binfile:" & tFilePath)
  set the uRsrcFork of btn "Foobar" to \
      URL ("resfile:" & tFilePath)
--
  put the uDataFork of btn "Foobar" into \
      URL ("binfile:" & tFilePath)
  put the uRsrcFork of btn "Foobar" into \
      URL ("resfile:" & tFilePath)
--
This won't do the trick if your user has to run an
installer app that is cut in half by WIndows, heh.

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

=====
"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)


	
		
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