This comes from a guy who will edit a Windows registry at the drop of a hat.

How in the world does one correctly use ResEdit? In the particular case I want to "fix" or "re-add" the resource fork back to files that lost the fork when downloaded to a PC. I have some of the common resource values for *.img files but would be interested in the values for *.smi and any others you might be able to provide.

In any case I can add one of the values but not the other.

I'm sooooooo confused........

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One and All,

This comes from a guy who will edit a Windows registry at the drop of a hat.

How in the world does one correctly use ResEdit? In the particular case I want to "fix" or "re-add" the resource fork back to files that lost the fork when downloaded to a PC. I have some of the common resource values for *.img files but would be interested in the values for *.smi and any others you might be able to provide.

In any case I can add one of the values but not the other.

I'm sooooooo confused........

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i think some shareware program called filetyper or something like that would be easier for what you seem to be describing. i never touch resedit without woodpulp based docs at hand!

jt ™. .

You launch ResEdit and open two files, one being the file that needs to be changed and one being a file that already working. You find the values in the good file (i.e., whichever values are missing) and just copy and paste them to the bad one, simple as that.

BTW, although I have spent my entire career to date on PC's and will probably never change (I really like to eat and have a place to live) I do recognize the usefulness of Mac's and I have a definate need to know as much as I can about the way they work and the how the OS manages resources, etc.

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Is there a point to this? yes

I have become objective about computers. This Quadra has been just as big a pain in the neck as all the others except for this point, I am solving any problems, having fun and the Quadra is working very successfully in todays computer environment.

We find the chinese odd for the twang in there accent, the cannibals of indonesia, the french eating snails but they all have thier own culture and need to be respected. Computers too have thier own culture and 68k computers are a culture in thier own right. Learn from other platforms but I like 68k Apple Macs now because they can be worked with, enhanced and relied upon. I also use MagicMac and so have access to lots of well written TOS/GEM (Atari) software.

now how do I get a signature at the end of this? I want it to say.....

shaktiman

68kmacs liberated

Apple Mac Quadra 840av

The .img and .smi files have a checksum in the resource fork based on the data in that particular file.

So adding the resources back to a .img file can be a bit of a problem for a file that has lost them.

When the .img file mounts it uses the checksum to verify the image.

I think diskcopy has an option to turn verify checksum off but it still might not work because also in the data fork of the image file are the data fork and resource forks size fields that were calculated when the image was made.

So the mounter checks the file against these size fields and if they are'nt right it won't mount the image file.

Which brings me to a point that I'd like to make to the group as a whole. Not all of us are MAC only folks and in many cases our primary machines are Intel clones. That's where my high speed connection is and my primary source of hard drive space. It would be very help for all of us to upload files in acompressed format, MacZIP or Stuff-It, even GZip so that we can enjoy them without the problems created by editing resource forks.

I realize that there are some who can't stomach the PC world but we've been doing the compression thing for a long time and it works. Not only is the size of the file reduced but data loss is lessened.

Now that I'm off my soap box...Thanks to all who have responded.

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