Re: [MacPerl] detecting corrupt resources

["Doug McNutt" <dmcnutt@macnauchtan.com>]

>Does anyone know how to prevent MacPerl from crashing when it opens the
>resource fork of a corrupt file?

The MacOS allows OpenRF() and OpenResFile(). The first simply opens the
resource fork for reading without benefit of the resource manager. The
second expects to find a resource map which probably has to be clean.

I'm betting that OpenRF is supported somewhere in MacPerl, but then you'd
have to scan the resource map manually.  Probably a pain. You could look for
obvious things like size though. The only common use of OpenRF is for
copying or compressing files.

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