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MacBinary
MacBinary is a file format that combines the data fork and the resource fork of a classic Mac OS file into a single file, along with Hierarchical File System (Apple), HFS's extended metadata. The resulting file is suitable for transmission over File Transfer Protocol, FTP, the World Wide Web, and electronic mail. The documents can also be stored on computers that run operating systems with no HFS support, such as Unix or Microsoft Windows, Windows. MacBinary was widely supported on the Macintosh and was built into most communications programs on that platform. Similar solutions were built into most data compression applications on the Mac, and although these did not require MacBinary to survive transmission across non-Mac systems, MacBinary was often added in these cases to preserve longer filenames and other features. The dual-fork nature of the HFS system was not used on Mac OS X, and MacBinary has largely disappeared. Description In contrast to other computers of the era, Macin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AppleSingle And AppleDouble Formats
AppleSingle Format and AppleDouble Format are file formats developed by Apple Computer to store Mac OS resource fork, "dual-forked" files on the Unix filesystem being used in A/UX, the Macintosh platform's first Unix-like operating system. AppleSingle combined both file forks and the related Macintosh Finder, Finder meta-file information into a single file, whereas AppleDouble stored them as two separate files. Support for the formats was later added to Unix software such as Network File System (protocol), NFS and Macintosh Application Environment, MAE, but they saw little use outside this small market. AppleSingle is similar in concept to the more popular MacBinary format, in that the resource and data forks are combined with a header containing the Finder information. In fact, the format is so similar, it seemed there was no reason why Apple did not simply use MacBinary instead, which by that point was widely known and used. Some not-so-obvious reasons are explained in an Internet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |