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INFO: Accessing the Macintosh Resource Fork

Article ID:106663
Last Review:November 21, 2006
Revision:4.1
This article was previously published under Q106663

SUMMARY

Resource forks are implemented as NTFS streams named AFP_Resource. There is no structure to the fork; it is exactly whatever the Macintosh writes to it. The resource fork can be written to using standard Win32 application programming interfaces (APIs). Refer to the forks as <FileName>:AFP_Resource.

APPLIES TO
Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface, when used with:
  Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
  Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
  Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
  Microsoft Windows 2000 Standard Edition

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