Digital BW, The Print

The answer to your question is yes or to be more accurate - maybe. Most
modern email programs will handle the resource fork just fine but as you
know computers don't always work like they should. If you use stuffit it
will keep all the information even if it passes through a PC.


Lanette


On 9/23/01 9:23 PM, "Carolyn  Frayn" <carolyn@...> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
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