On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Michael L. Hitch wrote:

>   I seem to recall that the Mac used a "Macbin" format for some transfers,
> which puts a 128 byte header at the beginning of the data.

This reinforces my point:  In that case, the transfer software is doing a
conversion.  If it does so without being explicitly requested to, that's
an application problem, not a problem with resource forks per se.

--scott