• A resource fork is a fork of a file on Apple's classic Mac OS operating system that is used to store structured data. It is one of the two forks of a file...
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  • allowed a file system object to have two kinds of forks: a data fork and a resource fork. The resource fork was designed to store non-compiled data that would...
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  • resource-fork and data-fork formats. The resource-fork version was the original suitcase format. Data-fork-only suitcases, which place the resource fork...
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  • resources directly in the Mac's resource fork architecture. It was an alternative to tools such as REdit, and the resource compiler Rez. For the average...
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  • empty data fork, while a data file might have only a data fork with no resource fork. A word processor file could contain its text in the data fork and styling...
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  • until 2005 almost no system software took advantage of forks other than the data fork and resource fork. HFS Plus also uses a full 32-bit allocation mapping...
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  • MacBinary is a file format that combines the data fork and the resource fork of a classic Mac OS file into a single file, along with HFS's extended metadata...
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    slowing down or crashing the system due to resource starvation. Around 1978, an early variant of a fork bomb called wabbit was reported to run on a System/360...
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  • function (XFCN) modules. These are code libraries packaged in a stack's resource fork that integrate into either the system generally or the HyperTalk language...
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  • AppleDouble leaves the data fork in its original format, allowing it to be edited by normal Unix utilities. The resource fork and Finder information, both...
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    originally implemented the AppleDouble format for storing the resource fork separately from the data fork when a Mac OS file was transferred to the Unix-like computer's...
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  • Resource fork, data associated with a Mac OS file Resource (Windows), data embedded in EXE and DLL files Resource (Java), application data Resource (band)...
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  • Multiprocessing Services Option key (⌥) OSType PICT QuickDraw QuickTime Resource fork Sosumi sound Startup sequence System folder System suitcase Type code...
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  • and the icon (provided in a separate file in Mozilla and part of the resource fork in Sherlock). The Sherlock 3 search plug-in was a web application, which...
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  • Multiprocessing Services Option key (⌥) OSType PICT QuickDraw QuickTime Resource fork Sosumi sound Startup sequence System folder System suitcase Type code...
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  • the storage of files as a "resource fork" and "data fork", and the Macintosh port only supported encoding of files' data fork, meaning it could only be...
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  • RunningDataForkOffset; uint64_t DataForkOffset; // usually 0, beginning of file uint64_t DataForkLength; uint64_t RsrcForkOffset; // resource fork offset...
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  • Classic Mac OS 1990-05-15 Ithaca, New York Infects menu definition resource fork files. Mdef infects all Classic Mac OS versions from 4.1 to 6. Melissa...
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  • SimpleText style information was stored in the file's resource fork in such a way that if the resource fork was stripped (such as by uploading to a non-Macintosh...
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  • forks) that are logically referred to as one file. By placing the PostScript in the data fork and a standard Mac PICT resource in the resource fork,...
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  • Hierarchical File System (HFS) supported a data fork and a resource fork. Mac OS HFS+ supports multiple forks, as does Microsoft Windows NTFS alternate data...
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  • Durandal had a creator code of 52.4. The binding are stored inside the resource fork of the application as BNDL and fref resources. These resources maintained...
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  • X 10.4 Tiger the UNIX command line file management tools understand resource forks and can be used for management of Mac files. There are minor differences...
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  • suitcase's resource fork, meaning it was only really available to "power users" who would be comfortable using ResEdit or other resource editor. Since...
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  • Managers MultiFinder Option key (⌥) OSType PICT QuickDraw QuickTime Resource fork Sosumi sound Startup sequence System folder System suitcase Type code...
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  • technique is used, where additional metadata can be added to a file's resource fork. Similar in concept are the application directories used in RISC OS...
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    data fork, surrounded by additional code, the resource fork contains additional formats. Test.textClipping-Details.png Text clipping data fork contents...
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  • Managers MultiFinder Option key (⌥) OSType PICT QuickDraw QuickTime Resource fork Sosumi sound Startup sequence System folder System suitcase Type code...
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  • embedded images; the images were stored in PICT format in the file's resource fork in ascending numbers from zero, instances of non-breaking spaces in...
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    (file characteristics specific to the classic Mac OS and macOS, such as resource forks, file backup date and more). Compact discs were originally developed...
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