Re: Forked Files

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Matt Jensen <printed.in.my.sig.below@bresnanlink.net> wrote:

> Robert Flossmann wrote:
> > 
> > *       Are the two forks stored in a contiguous manner (1 file) or as two
> > seperate files?
> 
> One file...it is actually stored as two mini-files at the deepest
> filesystem level, but this is hidden from users--including both end
> users AND programmers who use OS facilities to access the files.

It is hidden from users, but not from programmers.  A programmer must
deal with the data fork and resource fork as if they were two separate
files.  (If the programmer is only interested in the data fork, there is
no need to do anything with the resource fork.)