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applefile(5)		Headers, Environments, and Macros	    applefile(5)

NAME
     applefile - Radmind AppleSingle file

DESCRIPTION
     To  provide  support  for Mac OS X, radmind is aware of the Mac OS metadata
     used on HFS+-formatted drives. When lcreate uploads a file denoted  in  the
     transcript  as  an applefile (type 'a'), it encodes the file and the file's
     metadata to the server as an AppleSingle file. The AppleSingle file  is  an
     archive  containing  a  file's  relevant metadata and data in a single file
     stream. The radmind AppleSingle file has the following format:

     1) The AppleSingle header, consisting of a 4-byte magic number, 4-byte ver-
     sion number, 16-byte filler, 2-byte number denoting the number  of  entries
     in  the  archive,	and  3	header entries, each describing the items in the
     archive and containing a 4-byte entry id, 4-byte offset, and 4-byte length;

     2) The file's Finder information (32 bytes), which stores the  file's  Type
     and Creator codes, as well its position in the Finder window;

     3) The file's Resource Fork, which contains things like images, sounds, and
     other data not easily or appropriately stored in the Data Fork;

     4)  The file's Data Fork, the portion visible from the Finder, and the only
     part which is considered valid by flat file systems.

     The radmind tool lapply similarly decodes the applefile from the server and
     restores it to the client Mac OS X machine  running  on  an  HFS+-formatted
     drive.

MORE INFO
     The     Apple     Computer's    AppleSingle    RFC    is	 available    at
     http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1740.html.

SEE ALSO
     ktcheck(1),  lapply(1),  lcreate(1),   lcksum(1),	 lfdiff(1),   lmerge(1),
     lsort(1), radmind(8), twhich(1).

RSUG				October 06, 2023		    applefile(5)

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