Re: Knifing a Resource Fork

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

In article <29o20q$4rc@panix.com> blakjak@panix.com (Noah Mittman) writes:
> I've been doing some scanning of art on the Mac, then bringing the floppy
> over to the GS (having saved them as GIFs)... However, there's now a nasty
> resource fork (with unneeded pathname info) which prevents me from
> uploading them anywhere. Is there an easy way to remove it? Someone on a
> local board said there was a program that did this... ?

Assuming you are doing this under GS/OS, you basically need a program
which will copy the data fork and leave the resource fork behind.

If you have a copy of System 4.0, that version of Finder will do the
trick (or an earlier version).  You should be able to run System 4's
Finder under System 6.

There is also a utility supplied with APW 1.1, called "duplicate"
which has options for copying only the data fork or resource fork.
You need APW, GNO or ORCA, MERLIN or ECP-16 to use this program.

There is no way to directly delete the resource fork from a file
(without bypassing GS/OS and doing direct block accesses, which is not
a good idea) - it can only be done by copying the data fork to another
file.
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David Empson                                                               
dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz                                                
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