AppleSingle - Revision history

Sembiance: sample files

2024-06-20T04:19:52Z

sample files

Jsummers at 21:01, 5 August 2019

2019-08-05T21:01:19Z

Jsummers at 16:45, 14 February 2019

2019-02-14T16:45:46Z

Jsummers: Changed primary category. It ought to be the same as MacBinary's.

2018-11-11T16:44:16Z

Changed primary category. It ought to be the same as MacBinary's.

Jsummers: PRONOM

2016-10-06T15:48:48Z

PRONOM

Dan Tobias: /* Other links */

2016-09-11T23:23:42Z

‎Other links

Dan Tobias at 12:46, 24 October 2013

2013-10-24T12:46:50Z

Dan Tobias: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Filesystem |mimetypes={{mimetype|application/applefile}} }} AppleSingle is one of the systems used to store the [[Resource Fork..."

2013-10-24T04:16:49Z

Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Filesystem |mimetypes={{mimetype|application/applefile}} }} AppleSingle is one of the systems used to store the [[Resource Fork..."

New page

{{FormatInfo
|formattype=electronic
|subcat=Filesystem
|mimetypes={{mimetype|application/applefile}}
}}
[[AppleSingle]] is one of the systems used to store the [[Resource Fork]] of Macintosh files on filesystems not natively supporting it, something which became necessary when Apple moved to Unix-based operating systems instead of "classic" MacOS. [[AppleDouble]] is an alternative format to accomplish the same end, using two files where AppleSingle uses one.

AppleSingle combines the data and resource forks with Finder meta-information into a single file, similar in concept to [[MacBinary]].

== Format detail links ==
* [http://kaiser-edv.de/documents/AppleSingle_AppleDouble.pdf File format details]
* RFC 1740 (describes various Mac-specific formats)

== Utilities ==
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/macbinconv/ Mac Binary Converter]
* [https://metacpan.org/pod/Mac::AppleSingleDouble Mac::AppleSingleDouble Perl library]

== Other links ==
* [[Wikipedia:AppleSingle and AppleDouble formats|Wikipedia article]]
* [http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-newman-macbin-binhex-harmful-00 MacBinary and Binhex 4.0 considered harmful]

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 [[AppleSingle]] is one of the systems used to store the [[Resource Fork]] of Macintosh files on filesystems not natively supporting it, something which became necessary when Apple moved to Unix-based operating systems instead of "classic" MacOS. [[AppleDouble]] is an alternative format to accomplish the same end, using two files where AppleSingle uses one.
-AppleSingle combines the data and resource forks with Finder meta-information into a single file, similar in concept to [[MacBinary]].
+AppleSingle combines the data and resource forks with [[Finder information|Finder meta-information]] into a single file, similar in concept to [[MacBinary]].
 == Identification ==

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 {{FormatInfo
 |formattype=electronic
-|subcat=Filesystem
+|subcat=Archiving
 |mimetypes={{mimetype|application/applefile}}
 |pronom={{PRONOM|fmt/967}}, {{PRONOM|fmt/968}}
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 [[Category:Macintosh]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 12:46, 24 October 2013
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	* [[Wikipedia:AppleSingle and AppleDouble formats\|Wikipedia article]]		* [[Wikipedia:AppleSingle and AppleDouble formats\|Wikipedia article]]
	* [http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-newman-macbin-binhex-harmful-00 MacBinary and Binhex 4.0 considered harmful]		* [http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-newman-macbin-binhex-harmful-00 MacBinary and Binhex 4.0 considered harmful]
		+
		+	[[Category:Macintosh]]

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 * [http://sourceforge.net/projects/macbinconv/ Mac Binary Converter]
 * [https://metacpan.org/pod/Mac::AppleSingleDouble Mac::AppleSingleDouble Perl library]
 == Other links ==

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 |formattype=electronic
 |subcat=Archiving
 |mimetypes={{mimetype|application/applefile}}
 |pronom={{PRONOM|fmt/967}}, {{PRONOM|fmt/968}}
 }}
 [[AppleSingle]] is one of the systems used to store the [[Resource Fork]] of Macintosh files on filesystems not natively supporting it, something which became necessary when Apple moved to Unix-based operating systems instead of "classic" MacOS. [[AppleDouble]] is an alternative format to accomplish the same end, using two files where AppleSingle uses one.
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 AppleSingle combines the data and resource forks with Finder meta-information into a single file, similar in concept to [[MacBinary]].
-== Format detail links ==
+== Identification ==
-* [http://kaiser-edv.de/documents/AppleSingle_AppleDouble.pdf File format details]
+AppleSingle files begin with signature bytes (hex) {{magic|00 05 16 00}}.
-* RFC 1740 (describes various Mac-specific formats)
 == Utilities ==
@@ Line 19: / Line 24: @@
 == Other links ==
 * [[Wikipedia:AppleSingle and AppleDouble formats|Wikipedia article]]
-* [http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-newman-macbin-binhex-harmful-00 MacBinary and Binhex 4.0 considered harmful]
+* [https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-newman-macbin-binhex-harmful-00 MacBinary and Binhex 4.0 considered harmful]
 * [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/droid-list/G35r2kwtPCY/G4HXpuuwFAAJ Discussion and sample files on creating a DROID signature for AppleSingle]
 [[Category:Macintosh]]
 [[Category:Filesystem]]