Re: Stuff from Jens...

["Jens Ch. Restemeier" <jenschrr@post.uni-bielefeld.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.

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

Assume you have a lot of filters in an SQL database, and then generate
.8bf or .txt files if someone wants such a file. I don't want to say
more, but if I get it to work it will be a very cool resource. This
depends if I killed the motherboard of my 486 last night ... Did you
know that thin wires almost melt if you short-circuit a 5V line :-) ? 

jens