[desi]

I was wondering if anyone here uses it, and if so, how effective is it. also, where does the data fork go (the program zaps the data fork down to zero or close to it)? thanks.

[Person Man]

Originally posted by desi:
I was wondering if anyone here uses it, and if so, how effective is it. also, where does the data fork go (the program zaps the data fork down to zero or close to it)? thanks.

That program is VERY old. It probably worked back in the days where all program code resided in the resource fork and the programs stored their serial number/name info in the data fork. Once PowerPC programs came along, the PPC code was stored in the data fork (and 68K in the resource fork as always-- hence "fat binaries").

It certainly would kill any Mac OS X programs. And can damage a lot more programs these days anyway.

It's basically useless.

[desi]

Originally posted by Person Man:
That program is VERY old. It probably worked back in the days where all program code resided in the resource fork and the programs stored their serial number/name info in the data fork. Once PowerPC programs came along, the PPC code was stored in the data fork (and 68K in the resource fork as always-- hence "fat binaries").

It certainly would kill any Mac OS X programs. And can damage a lot more programs these days anyway.

It's basically useless.

I use it before I delete programs and documents, and I wanted to know if it was doing what it said it was. So, it is doing what I got it for. From the look of it, I could tell it was very old. Thanks for the help.