SplitForks(1) BSD General Commands Manual SplitForks(1)
NAME
/usr/bin/SplitForks -- Divide a two-fork HFS file into AppleDouble format
resource and data files.
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/SplitForks [-s] [-v] file
DESCRIPTION
SplitForks takes a Macintosh HFS or HFS Extended ("HFS+") two-fork file
and converts it into AppleDouble format, with the data fork in one file
and the resource fork and file system metadata in another.
/usr/bin/SplitForks takes the following flags and arguments:
[s] Strip the resource fork from the original file. The default is
to leave the resource file in place after copying it to its
AppleDouble metadata file.
[v] Produce verbose diagnostics to standard output.
file The file to split.
FILES
foo Data fork of file 'foo'
NOTES
SplitForks will fail with error 2 if the designated file is not on an HFS
or Extended HFS file system volume.
SEE ALSO
FixupResourceForks(1), MvMac(1), CpMac(1)
STANDARDS
Consult RFC 1740 for details on AppleSingle/AppleDouble formats.
Mac OS X April 12, 2004 Mac OS X
Mac OS X 10.6 - Generated Thu Sep 17 20:07:07 CDT 2009