Re: [MacPerl] Question

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 04:20:49PM -0700, darrylc@eznet.com wrote:
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} Anyone have an answer to this question?
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} Darryl Caldwell darrylc@eznet.com
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} ---------- Forwarded message ----------
} Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 07:50:18 -0700 (PDT)
} From: Creede Lambard <creede@penguinpowered.com>
} To: Darryl Caldwell <darrylc@eznet.com>
} Subject: Question
} 
} Can you ask around on the MacPerl mailing list to see if there's a way to
} open an intact resource fork, bypassing the toolbox? I know you can use
} Mac::Resources to get at the underlying resources, but I want to manage the
} resource fork as a whole. Thanks.

You mean as if it were a file/byte stream?  POSIX::open can do it.
Take a look at
CPAN/authors/id/S/SC/SCHINDER/Mac-Conversions-1.00.tar.gz for an
example that does native Mac <-> MacBinary, where you need to do this.

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