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Re: what are .sdk archives?
In article <okDcj.13327$_o6.5019@trndny06>,
Charlie <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net> wrote:
>"Gregory Weston" <uce@splook.com> wrote in message
>uce-80E76E.17091026122007@comcast.dca.giganews.com">news:uce-80E76E.17091026122007@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
>> And for what it's worth, the only situation I can recall Mac OS adding a
>> resource fork to a file that didn't already have one is when the user
>> pastes a custom icon onto a file.
>
>My experience with resource forks comes from using (and programming) an
>Apple IIgs. I've never used a Mac but a recurrent theme on this newsgroup
>seems to be that it adds forks to files (disk images) that pass through it
>on their way from the internet to an Apple II.
That hasn't happened IME. I've used Macs ranging from a Quadra 610 to a G4
mini to grab files for my Apple IIs, and none of them have "molested" the
files in such a way that the II can't read them.
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