Extra files found after a copy from Windows

[jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz)]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 09:36:50PM -0500, Robert La Ferla 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.
> >   
> No native *NIX calls.  The XCode development tool takes care of 
> packaging it for you into a .app and the ApplicationKit has support for 
> resource bundles.  This approach was actually part of NeXTSTEP, the 
> ancestor of OS X.

Makes sense. (wait a minute... software that makes sense? OMG!)
Thanks Bob.

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