[X-Unix] What's in an MP3's resource fork..? [Was: Re: [X4U] ._annoying_files on SMB shares - can I remove them..?]

[Stroller]

On Apr 21, 2004, at 1:15 am, Alex wrote:

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> On Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, at 19:36 Canada/Eastern, Stroller wrote:
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>> [...] I think we've had this conversation before
>
> Indeed.
>
>> and I still fail to understand what useful information can be stored 
>> in the resource fork
>
> Since my arguments have failed...

I do feel that I irk you every time I bitch about resource forks. I do 
not intend to do so, or to imply that resource forks are in any way 
"bad", merely that, as a personal preference, I don't like or 
understand them.

>> I'm not sure if your analogy is helpful, tho'.
>
> Only in the purely pragmatic sense that, if one has to make a living 
> in China, one might find it more productive to learn Chinese than to 
> complain that the Chinese don't speak English and that it's impossible 
> to translate exactly Chinese into English.

Ah, but I am learning Chinese. In my script I am careful to preserve 
*useful* resource forks. It's more like I whine, "I don't like having 
to speak Chinese, and sometimes miss living in my home country, where 
everyone speaks English". I'm sorry that my complaints bother you.

Stroller.