message from Harry re: Jens Stuff

[Alfredo Mateus <almateus@globalsite.com.br>]

Harry, you used a different e-mail address to send this message.

Alf
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Subject: 
        BOUNCE ff@seabrook.aurdev.com: Non-member submission from
["Harald Heim" <Harald.Heim@phil.stud.uni-erlangen.de>]
Hi,
 
> > Never tried to change the Mac filters in binhexed form. I just have
> > written a decompiler for Mac filters (works on mac only). If you are
> > interested in it, just tell me.
> > 
> > I will try to find out asap how the binhexing things work with resource
> > forks. Maybe it will be possible then to change the code of them. You
> > should not try to work on files with resourceforks on other platforms,
> > caue you will loose or the datafork or the res fork. Don't know which of
> > them... (Please remember that the resource forks are NOT a copy of the
> > data forks, like Microsoft likes to say.)
> 
> I know. You normally loose the resource-fork, if you simply transfer a
> file.
> But to avoid it I think there is an uncompressed "archive" format, that
> contains both the resource and the data fork in one stream.

My experience is that when you unsit a Mac archive under Windows 
or if you recieve a Mac file as an email attachment containing e.g. 
Mac FF plugins, the resource fork isn't lost. Only some bytes are 
changed within the file. If you add the extension ".bin" to this file
and 
send it to someone with a Mac, this person can convert the .bin file 
(with Stuffit Expander for example) back to a full functioning Mac FF 
plugin again.

So it is possible to edit the Mac plugin under Windows and use the 
changed Mac plugin without a problem on the Mac again.

Harry


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