Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 21:35:39 -0300

In message <jum-1509980024530001@anubis.han.de>, Jens-Uwe Mager writes:
+-----
| folks). I am at a loss to explain why they stored the description of what
| is in the data fork in resource, though (the cfrg resource, kinda like an
| ELF header).
+--->8

I'd think that would be fairly obvious (from a MacOS design/backward
compatibility standpoint). It starts out with the resource fork for
compatibility. If it finds a cfrg resource, it switches to the PPC "loader"
which loads from the data fork based on that resource's contents.

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electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university






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