<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><FONT face="Lucida Grande, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px">Encoding for Windows is supposed to strip away the resource fork.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Yes and no.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Yes, if you encode for Windows then the attached file holds only a data fork, because the concept of a resource fork doesn't work with plain attachments.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But no, the resource fork isn't gone. The content of the resource fork has been added as a specially marked part of the data fork of the attachment. So if people decode at the other side they still have both.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Björn</DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>