A Macintosh file has two forks: a data fork, which contains data (the same a files on other operating systems); and a resource fork, which has other attributes such a menus, icon, dialog boxes, formatting, and other code.In some methods of converting file for transfer (such a uuencoding), the resource fork of a Macintosh file is stripped off and only the data fork is sent.BinHex and MacBinary encoding preserve the resource fork.
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