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> Since it's all in one big file anyway and not something like two
> separate files, the answer must be yes: some of the bytes of the file
> are what the mac calls resource-fork, and others are data-fork.  You
> just won't be able to access the resource fork in any meaningful way
> I suppose.  The PC will just see it as one big file which has no
> particular meaning to it.  There won't be a way for the PC to
> distinguish between resource-fork bytes and data-fork bytes.

Hmm thats the first problem, preserving the resource fork, or at least
recognising it as such....

> Is there a particular reason you ask this?

JUst thinking about useful utilities and the like Hendrik (dont know who put
that idea in my head ...) and I thought all the talk of SDII files and the
like. It would be nice to write a little util (probably in perl, maybe in
c++ but I have a lot to learn there...) to strip out the resource fork and
save it in a useful format for PC users, like a MIDI file or something,
maybe you and I could petition Emagic to tell us the format of their song
files....??

Despite that, I am currently working 12+hours every day so I dont think I'll
have much time to implement this, just nice to get the idea composted in to
let it ferment a bit...

Is there a spec/white paper/whatever on SDII anywhere on the web that I
could look at (for some bedtime reading you understand ;) ) - I'm about to
look anyway but it always helps to have a few pointers from all you folks
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