Re: The whole resource controversy resolved at last!!

[murph@apple.com (Jim Murphy)]

In article <jmk3.737313306@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> Jay Krell,
     jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>  A lot of what people are complaining about is the non-portability of
> forked files to other file systems, which is definitely a user issue.

     Since most of the benefits of forked files that have been mentioned
were in regards to _application_programs_ and not data files, I'd like to
know how this can possibly effect portability. I know I need to make sure
Finder's resource fork survives when I put my uncompressed version of in
on my Unix box. Not.


Jim Murphy        Apple II System Software Engineer        murph@apple.com

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