Extra files found after a copy from Windows

John Abreau jabr at blu.org
Sat Jan 21 14:15:58 EST 2006


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.

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