Extra files found after a copy from Windows

[jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz)]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:15:58PM -0500, John Abreau wrote:
> Jeff Kinz wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Does  anyone know if Apple modified the OSX file system manager(s)
> > to have this same feature as an inherent capability of the file
> > system API or are they making each application program their own?
> 
> Apple's approach in OSX was to make an application be a folder with a 
> .app extension, and then use an xml-like file to index files within that 
> folder that correspond to the old resource fork.

Ah, interesting.

Do you know if the application developers have to implement all that
via native *NIX file system API calls or has Apple built their own API
to sort of automate all that for their developers? 

I'm not expecting anyone to know this, just curious.


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