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Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?
nospam wrote:
In article , David Empson wrote: For further completeness: Mac OS 9 and earlier used a similar AppleDouble structure to store Mac files on foreign file systems, but they are arranged differently. Apple chose to create a hidden directory called (misleadingly) RESOURCE.FRK alongside the data fork file, and put the auxiliary file in there, with the same name as the data fork file. As with Mac OS X, the file in the RESOURCE.FRK directory _may_ include a resource fork, but it also includes the Finder Informaiton. This is probably where the false impression arose that the Finder information was in the resource fork. It is actually separate, but stored in the same file as the resource fork on a non-Mac file system. the false impression of finder info being part of the resource fork goes back to well before mac os 9. Which part of "Mac OS 9 and earlier" did you not read? I know that the the RESOURCE.FRK folder on foreign file systems dates at least as far back as System 7.5 (1994), but as I didn't use Macs regularly prior to that I don't have direct experience of when it was introduced. The Apple II technical notes documenting AppleSingle and AppleDouble (which include Macintosh details) were written in March 1989 and last updated in 1991 and 1990 respectively. The AppleDouble one doesn't specify where the AppleDouble Header File (the non-data file) is supposed to go (it suggests searching for the file or asking the user) so the RESOURCE.FRK standard certainly wasn't established by 1990. PC Exchange is likely to be the origin of the RESOURCE.FRK folder. Wikipedia says it was introduced as a separate product in 1992, included in System 7 Pro in 1993 and was part of the main system from System 7.5 in 1994. Does anyone happen to know whether Apple File Exchange used the same convention? (I don't have my antique Mac developer documentation handy, nor do I care enough to waste time digging through it looking for the details.) -- David Empson |
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