Re: zero filesize on certain macintosh filetypes

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From: Rod Dorman (rodd_at_panix.com)
Date: 12/08/04

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    Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:45:50 +0000 (UTC)

    In article <E036BC87-92BE-4BBA-AD6C-B817DE7DE39F@microsoft.com>,
    Dennis <Dennis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
    > ...
    >The reason for asking is that we have an application that has hotfolder
    >funtionality. If anything gets dropped in a folder, it's automaticallly
    >picked up and processed. I think that the reason for the files not being
    >picked up is because the Windows explorer shows the files as empty files. I
    >have done some searching and I think it might be related that for example Mac
    >font files actually don't have any data in the datafork and only have
    >information in the resource fork, hence the empty files... Is there someone
    >that has seen something similar, are there known workarounds?

    For a better understanding of how Mac forks are dealt with, use Google
    groups to find Message-ID:
    <#g6HehJD9GA.158@uppssnewspub05.moswest.msn.net>

    You can either change the creating application to only use the data
    fork, or, you can change the hotfolder application to be aware of
    alternate streams. 

    -- 
					-- Rod --
rodd(at)polylogics(dot)com
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