newman@ut-emx.UUCP (Dave Newman) (04/03/89)
Can someone suggest some code that will allow me to delete
the resource fork of a file? I would like to obliterate
it entirely. Pascal is preferable, but others that are
convertible by me would be OK. I have some files with
empty resource forks that are taking up space on my disk,
and I'd like to smash those resource forks. Unfortuately,
I don't have either FEdit+ or MPW, both of which, I am told,
will do the trick.
I've looked through such documentation as I have, and I see
no way to accomplish this little task.
Thanks for the assistance!
>>Dave
ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) (04/03/89)
From article <11696@ut-emx.UUCP>, by newman@ut-emx.UUCP (Dave Newman): ! Can someone suggest some code that will allow me to delete ! the resource fork of a file? I would like to obliterate ! it entirely. Pascal is preferable, but others that are ! convertible by me would be OK. I have some files with ! empty resource forks that are taking up space on my disk, ! and I'd like to smash those resource forks. Unfortuately, ! I don't have either FEdit+ or MPW, both of which, I am told, ! will do the trick. You'll need Inside Mac v. I plus either II or IV for details, but a direct way to do this is - call SFGetFile to let the user pick a file - call OpenRF with the volume/name from SFGetFile to open the resource fork - call SetEOF to truncate the fork to 0. - call FSClose. - loop if desired (until the SFReply.good is FALSE). =Ned Horvath=