How to open and read resource forks in Obj-C

Question

I have an old (OS9) file containing a resource fork with "CODE" resources and i would like to read that from Obj-C. I use something like:

NSFileHandle *codeFile=[NSFileHandle fileHandleForReadingAtPath:myPath];

but see only the data fork! Is there any simple solution for that?

I also tried to separate the resource fork with

"CpMac -r myFile newFile"

but get only the old file back?

Martin R · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-16 10:06:26Z

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Opening the path

yourFile/..namedfork/rsrc

gives you access to the resource fork of "yourFile". Alternatively, you can use getxattr(), because the resource fork is stored as an extended attribute named "com.apple.ResourceFork".

answered Oct 16, 2013 at 10:06

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