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

[Doug McNutt]

At 08:19 +0200 4/20/04, Jakob Peterhänsel wrote:
>Resource forks from user files will be called ._<filename> if I remember right.

I think that's an outdated convention. I use this in my tcsh startup file to make the "files" command from MPW work.

alias files ls -lF \*/..namedfork/data \*/..namedfork/rsrc

It adds   "/..namedfork/rsrc " to the filename where the slashes are an HFS crutch and not sub-directories.

Also be aware that the Finder popup menu in the getinfo dialog used to "open with" on a selected file will create a 50 kB resource fork. Using it to change the default application of an MP3 might surprise someone who is trying to remove resource forks.

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