Re: a folder of file system questions

[pkeidesis]

Rich Morin wrote:

Peculiarly, although stat works on the data and resource forks,
it seems to give the file's total number of blocks, when asked
about the forks:

Size
  Data fork          18884 (20.0 KB)
  Resource fork          0 (20.0 KB)
  Total              18884 (20.0 KB)

I know very little about it from the Unix point of view, but from the Mac point of view -- not all files have resource forks worth a tinker's damn. If rsrc is zero, well, then it is zero. pure ascii files are like that.

otoh, things like icons are mostly all rsrc.