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2002-07-15 12:32 / death by forking  »

Not sure how far this applies, and for which file types exactly, but if you're gonna send attachments from an OS9 machine to, um, anything else, then stuff everything up first. Fonts without resource forks don't seem to be fonts at all.

I don't think tar picks them up either ... :"The primary reason for moving application resources out of resource forks is to enable applications to be seamlessly moved around different file systems without loss of their resources; this would include methods such as BSD commands, FTP, email, and Windows and DOS copy commands.".

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