"File types"

[Teo Zenios]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre at floodgap.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: "File types"


> > > However, when storing Mac files on, say, a FAT volume, a hidden folder
is
> > > made to hold the additional data in the resource fork. This includes
> > > type/creator information.
> >
> > Ah, OK.  So the OS already has provisions to handle it and
> > hides those details from the user.  I.e. it does the things
> > I was insinuating the user would have to do, manually.
>
> Yes, it's totally transparent. This was very nice for taking 3.5" disks
> between my IIsi and the DOS PCs at work back when I sneakernetted
everything.
>

On a FAT volume the fork gets stripped away, so taking the file and putting
it back on the Mac without the resource fork the Mac OS will not know what
to do with it (ruins the file).