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

[Eugene Lee]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:17:38PM -0400, Alex wrote:
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: On Thursday, Apr 22, 2004, at 05:06 Canada/Eastern, Stroller wrote:
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: >[...] I do feel that I irk you every time I bitch about resource forks.
: >[...] as a personal preference, I don't like or understand them.
: 
: That's a different matter. De gustibus... I don't like or understand 
: Schoenberg or Alban Berg, but that doesn't mean they're no good.

Resource forks are not transparent to the user, are not portable to
non-Mac platforms, may be irrevocably lost when data is transported to
another Mac through one or more intermediary non-Macs, and belong to a
platform that many pundits argue dominate 5% of the world's computer
population and thus represents 5% of the world's computing experience.


-- 
Eugene Lee
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/