Re: [MacPerl] Creating a Resource Fork in a Text File Created with MacPerl

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 11.28 11/5/97, Philippe de Rochambeau wrote:
>How do you create a resource fork in a text file which you have just created
>with the Perl 'open' command?
>
>I am currently writing a program that creates HTML files on the fly. I would
>like to create resource forks in those files so that they appear as BBEdit
>files. Changing the files' Creator does not make them appear as BBedit files
>because they lack resource forks (when I open them with ResEdit, ResEdit tells
>me that the files don't have a resource fork).
>
>Any help on this matter would be appreciated.

Well, I am about to look at some of that myself, but you could check out Mac::Resources.  Any info I find I will pass along.

Regardless, changing the type and creator does make them BBEdit files; a resource fork is not necessary.  In fact, a utility that comes with BBEdit can go through your hard drive and change files to BBEdit's type and creator, with an option to delete the resource fork altogether.

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