Accessing the Macintosh Resource Fork

Last reviewed: November 2, 1995
Article ID: Q106663

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface (API) included with:
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    - Microsoft Windows NT versions 3.1 and 3.5
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Resource forks are implemented as NTFS streams named AFP_Resource. There is no structure to the fork; it is exactly whatever the Macintosh writes to it. The resource fork can be written to using standard Win32 application programming interfaces (APIs). Refer to the forks as <FileName>:AFP_Resource.

Additional reference words: 3.10 3.50
KBCategory: kbprg
KBSubcategory: BseMisc

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Last reviewed: November 2, 1995
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