Data Fork Reader/ Res Edit Extention?

[Mike Kelleher]

Hi all,

Not being a programmer myself, I have a question that I hope someone
will be able to answer. Is there a program out there that will read the
data fork of a file for you? I have to very corrupted files I'm trying to get
my data back from. Res Edit does wonders for resources, but it's blind when
it comes to getting any information from the data fork of a file. Is there
an extention for resedit, or perhaps another program that will help me get
something back? Please email me if you have any info that might help.

Thanks,

Mike Kelleher

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[Jim Bumgardner]

kell...@zia.ucs.indiana.edu (Mike Kelleher) writes:

> Not being a programmer myself, I have a question that I hope someone
>will be able to answer. Is there a program out there that will read the
>data fork of a file for you? I have to very corrupted files I'm trying to get
>my data back from. Res Edit does wonders for resources, but it's blind when
>it comes to getting any information from the data fork of a file. Is there
>an extention for resedit, or perhaps another program that will help me get
>something back?

I recently uploaded a program called "HexEdit" to the info-mac archive. This
is an editor for data forks (or raw resource forks) that works like the
hex editor in ResEdit. You can get it by anonymous ftp from
sumex-aim.stanford.edu.

I also saw recently on America Online an extension for ResEdit that allows you
to edit the datafork as if it were a resource. I don't remember the name,
though.

- Jim

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