[mappu]

>On Mac Classic, if you wanted to ship a custom font with your application, you'd put it in the Resource fork in a resource of "FONT" type.

On Windows you can do the same thing with .rsrc in an .exe/.dll file.

It's possible you would ship a font as a PE .dll with a font resource, but for a single file the encapsulation is a little unnecessary (unless your application architecture already makes it easy to deal with PE encapsulation).

[Avernar]

Except that in the windows example you gave the .rsrc section is part of the main data stream. It is counted in the file's size when doing a dir command. When the file is copied by all command line and shell tools or sent over the internet the data in the .rsrc section is copied/sent just like all the other data in the exe/dll.

None of this is true for the resource fork in the Mac case.