Extra files found after a copy from Windows

[Robert La Ferla]

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.