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		rollcat 69 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The initial version of the /etc./magic file used b... Today we still have xattrs, but it's not even too late, it's simply impossible; even OS X gave up on resource forks, because PCs won. (An excerpt from history.txt)

frizlab 69 days ago [–]

macOS has xattrs too (had them very early actually), and supports resource forks through them (it’s the same concept), though they are not used anymore except in some fringe cases.

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