The resource fork is a construct of the Mac OS operating system used to store structured data in a file, alongside unstructured data stored within the data fork. A resource fork stores information in a specific form, such as icons, the shapes of windows, definitions of menus and their contents, and application code (machine code). For example, a word processing file might store its text in the data fork, while storing any embedded images in the same file's resource fork. The resource fork is used mostly by executables, but every file is able to have a resource fork.
Read more about Resource Fork: The Macintosh File System, Resource Identifiers, Editing Resource Forks, How A Resource Fork Is Accessed, Data Types in A Resource Fork, Major Resource Types, Major Resource Editors, Compatibility Problems, Other Operating Systems
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