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Re: Update Maker
#1 · December 2, 1997, 9:53 pm
Posted by: mlincoln <mlincoln@...>
Deepesh Letap wrote:
>
> The ResCompare only updates resource based files. This is fine if you are
> dealing with unmodified files where only the Resource Fork is in use like
> FB 68K applications.
---snip---
> In the near future, we may be blessed with a PPC FAT Binary compiler in FB.
> This will create a file which has part of the application in the resource
> fork and part in the data fork. An updater which forgets about the data
> fork will be disasterous! In this situation, UpdateMaker is essential over
> ResCompare.
>
> The ResCompare only updates resource based files. This is fine if you are
> dealing with unmodified files where only the Resource Fork is in use like
> FB 68K applications.
---snip---
> In the near future, we may be blessed with a PPC FAT Binary compiler in FB.
> This will create a file which has part of the application in the resource
> fork and part in the data fork. An updater which forgets about the data
> fork will be disasterous! In this situation, UpdateMaker is essential over
> ResCompare.
In another forum, there was a discussion of updaters, and it is my
understanding from that discussion that ResCompare 2.6 _does_ patch the
data fork as well as the resource fork.