October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
64h 7m
English
If you share files between Macs and Windows computers on your network, you need to be aware of some compatibility issues.
The first issue arises because Mac files actually consist of two separate parts, called forks:
• The data fork, which contains data, document text, program code, and so on
• The resource fork, which in applications contains language-specific strings and dialog box layouts for programs, and in documents contains the association information that links a document to the application that created it
The two parts can be read and written to completely independently. It’s as if each Mac file is composed of two bundled but separate files.
Windows also supports this concept. On Windows, the ...
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