Re: Shrinkit Question

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

>Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
>
>: The proper way to extract GS programs is to use GS Shrinkit...
>: which, incidentally, is able to extract .shk archives directly from a
>: Mac without the need to mess around with Protype...GS/OS and
>: GS Shrinkit does not care if Netscape Mac attaches an rComment
>: resource to the archive!  Remember, GS/OS and Mac OS share
>: extended files in common...GS Shrinkit does not care what MacOS
>: does to file archives and 8-bit Shrinkit can't extract forked files
>: WITHIN an archive just like it can't read an archive at all if MacOS
>: has extended ("forked") it...
>
>This is stupid advice. Why have a useless resource fork wasting disk space
>(especially if you plan to keep archives long term) when it's not needed
>and is so easy to get rid of? Do you have some personal reason for wanting
>to leave resource forks attached to archive files?

What the ****?

Actually, I do add comments to my file with Finder on the GS, so all
my archives have rComment with or without help from MacOS, but
really...how much space does an empty rComment resource take?
A few bytes?  Hardly can notice it (usually does not make a difference
at all because files normally are not sized to fit exactly in an integer
number of blocks so the empty rComment does not go into the next
block).