Thanks, Bob, Andrew.

"Andrew C. Greenberg" werdna@gate.net wrote:

At 12:40 AM -0400 5/1/2000, danielv@netvision.net.il wrote:

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Just wondering, could some Mac guy explain what this appledouble stuff is? can help but wonder, we'll have to make them transparent in Celeste someday... ;-)

Mark Guzdial guzdial@cc.gatech.edu wrote:

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--============_-1255180694==_============ Content-Id: <v04210119b52f73393641@[130.207.3.227].0.0> Content-Type: multipart/appledouble; boundary="============_-1255180694==_D============"

--============_-1255180694==_D============ Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Type: application/applefile; name="%MusicEditorApril27.zip" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="%MusicEditorApril27.zip" ; modification-date="Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:00:27 -0400"

AAUWBwACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMAAAADAAAAPgAAABYAAAAJAAAAVAAAACAA AAAIAAAAdAAAABBNdXNpY0VkaXRvckFwcmlsMjcuemlwWklQIFpJUCABAAKcA8AAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAmyCbAJsgm0ttDAAAnEoq

All files in the MacOS file systems comprise two (possibly empty) parts: (1) a data fork and (2) a resource fork. The data fork may comprise any data or text in any format whatsoever, the resource fork is a highly stylized database of various data types. Most of what you think of as a file comes from the data fork, but apple files need to be moved from place to place in their entirety. One encoding of this schizophrenic file structure is called AppleDouble. -- Andrew C. Greenberg acg@netwolves.com V.P. Eng., R&D, 813.885.2779 (office) Netwolves Corporation 813.885.2380 (facsimile) www.netwolves.com