Re: Stuff from Jens...

[Thomas De Groote <Thomas.DeGroote@rug.ac.be>]

Hello,

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.)

What do you mean with dynamically changing the filters ? Sorry, but I just
don't get zhat you mean with that.

Bye,
Thomas
http://thomas.cyberdream.net

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Jens Ch. Restemeier wrote:

[snip]

> - Would the dynamic conversion/creation of .8bf, .txt or .ffl files be
> covered by the copyright from Adobe and you authors ?
> 
> - MacOS ff-filters seem to use the resource-fork for information. Has
> anyone experimented with modifying them in some "flat" form, like a
> binhex'ed file ? Is there a safe way to manipulate resources from a
> non-MacOS environment ?
> 
> Jens
>