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I always thought the resource fork as a good idea poorly implemented. IMO they should have just given you a library that manipulated a regular file. Then you could choose to use it or not but it would still be a single file. It could have a standard header to identify it and the system could look inside if that header was there.

One of the big problems with resource forks was that no other system supported them so to host a mac file on a non-mac drive or an ftp server, etc, the file had to be converted to something that contained both parts, then converted back when brought to the mac. It was a PITA.