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on 7/12/06 13:26, Dave Hodgkinson at davehodg at gmail.com wrote:

> Are resource forks used for *anything* these days?

Yup - that's how some JPGs can open in Preview, others in Photoshop. Beats
having to define one app to open every jpg you have. No way to do that other
than meta-data - and without changing the file format, that needs to be
stored in a resource fork. Very neat system - shame no-one else adopted it.

> They are a bizarre, stupid hangover and should die.

Nope - meta data is very useful. I agree that important info (like the MooV
header) shouldn't be stored in them, but then it's not any more: only legacy
or badly written apps do that kind of thing, to my knowledge.

Oliver.