From:	Jeff Lowrey	Date:	Fri Mar 21 15:59:42 2003
Subject:	Re: [MacPerl-Toolbox] strip the resource fork

At 11:33 PM +0100 3/21/03, Bart Lateur wrote:
>A quick question... what's a simple, proper way to strip the resource
>fork from files? In this case, it's all JPEG files, where Photoshop
>attached an icon to.
>
>I'm pretty sure something involving Posix::open with use of the
>Fcntl::O_RSRC flag could help... (see Mac::Conversions, on CPAN), but
>details are still vague to me, and I want to make sure the resource fork
>is completely gone, not just empty.

Just use normal file operations to stream the data fork into a new file.

-jeff lowrey