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Re: suit file

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:01:52PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Ben Wiley Sittler wrote:
> 
> > It's a font "suitcase", and IIRC the font data is actually in
> > the "resource" fork. At least under Mac OS X, fontforge seems
> > to be able to deal with these. If you have the file on a
> > non-Mac OS machine it may well be corrupt, since non-Mac
> > filesystems do not preserve the resource fork data.
> 
> This file was sent to me by a friend, from a Mac computer, by
> e-mail, and then saved on my ext3 HD. Any danger that it was
> corrupted, or incomplete?

Often old Mac email programs will send both the data fork and resource
fork as attachments when sending email. You might need a good mail
reader like mutt which can let you select which mime element you want
to save in order to get the resource fork saved as its own file.

Rich


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