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Re: Opening forked files - how?

Tero Sand (cust_ts@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
: I seem to remember seeing a utility for converting a file with a
: resource and data fork into two files. Does anybody know its name, and
: whether it's on any of the ftp sites? Reason for asking: my brother has
: an IBM, and he's interested in examining some Macintosh files. No, I
: don't have access to a Mac, only my GS.
: Thanks for any info.
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Check out ShadowWrite, it lets you open either fork and save it in text
format or whatever. I'm not sure, though, whether it preserves all
characters or throws out control chars. If you're just scanning for
strings, it might do the trick.

- henrik
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