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somewhat related to the directories: https://www.macdisk.com/macforken.php https://www.macdisk.com/macforken.php

• lproven 3y ago
  Not really... that's a Classic MacOS thing, not anything in NeXTstep, OpenStep or OS X, although OS X respects and preserves them. Perhaps the closer correspondence is file metadata. For all that Risc OS is based on Acorn MOS, an OS that's as old or older than MS-DOS, it stores richer metadata: for instance, files have a Creator Type which is 3 hex digits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RISC_OS_filetypes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RISC_OS_filetypes This can't be stored on DOS filesystems. So, just like Classic MacOS files with their 2 forks, to keep Risc OS files on DOS media without damaging them, they must be packed inside a Zip file or something like that -- and using a RiscOS (or MacOS) native Zip program that stores, and recreates, the metadata. (Linux used to do something vaguely similar with the `umsdos` filesystem.) DOS/Windows PC owners, who think the universe revolves around them, never could get the hang of this.