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Re: Packing any file in a stream (including resource forks)

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Subject: Re: Packing any file in a stream (including resource forks)
From: Norman Palardy <npalardy at great-white-software dot com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:55:59 -0600
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References: <75AC0F35-3650-4444-8491-1F38ABB496DC at mac dot com> <DEE87163-70E3-4559-8095-8DD9F239EEFA at einhugur dot com>

On Jul 30, 2005, at 4:07 PM, Björn Eiríksson wrote:

You have two options on those

Either use a ResourceStream plugin (we have one as well as others probably) or detect when its a Mac specific file and MacBinary encode the file in such cases (which will also preserve all other Mac specific flags)

three options now ....

Just posted on www.great-white-software.com a way to pack a file, including resource forks, into a string and back again.

since I just wrote this in the last hour there may be bugs ....


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