Digital BW, The Print

Welcome Lanette... great first post.  While I realized we had the two forks
I did not know that the resource fork was lost when passing thru another
environment. If you send a mac file to a mac friend thru email, does the
email client lose the resource fork or does this only occur when going to a
windows environment (ie: it's the windows system that dumps the resource
fork)?

Thanks,
Carolyn 


> On a similar note that while Mac's don't require file extensions it can make
> life easier if you include them. A native Mac file consists of 2 parts- the
> data fork and the resource fork. The data fork is obviously where the data
> is. The resource fork is where the file type and icon are stored (along with
> a few other things). This works wonderfully as long as your file stays in a
> Mac environment but any time that files passes through another file system
> it loses its resource fork. If the file has the correct extension the Mac
> File Exchange utility will automatically associate it with the correct
> program.