Jon Glass (jonglass_at_usa.net) wrote:
> Some programs use them for strange things. For instance, all formatting in
> Nisus Writer documents is contained in the resource fork.
So does SimpleText, Tex-Edit Plus, and most other text editors -- nothing
strange about that, as that's what the resource fork is for. Storing
formatting data in the resource fork is a very elegant solution, as any
app can read the text that's in the data fork, even when its formatting
is lost.
- Michael
Michael J. Hussmann
E-mail: michael_at_michael-hussmann.de
WWW: http://michael-hussmann.de
-- This is the Newtontalk mailinglist - http://www.newtontalk.net To unsubscribe or manage: visit the above link or mailto:newtontalk-request_at_newtontalk.net?Subject=unsubscribe
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Wed Oct 03 2001 - 12:01:36 EDT