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REZWACK(1)                BSD General Commands Manual               REZWACK(1)

NAME
     /Developer/Tools/RezWack -- Combines resource and data forks of a file into a flattened file.

SYNOPSIS
     /Developer/Tools/RezWack -d dataFork [-do dataForkOffset] -r resFork [-ro resForkOffset] -o outFileName
                              [-f]

DESCRIPTION
     /Developer/Tools/RezWack takes the data fork of one input file, the resource fork of (possibly the
     same) file, and combines them into a single "flattened" data-fork file.  This file can then be trans-ferred transferred
     ferred to file systems, file servers, or other protocols that do not handle Macintosh HFS resource
     forks.  QuickTime uses this format for "flattened" MooV (.moov or .mov) files.

     /Developer/Tools/RezWack takes the following flags and arguments:

     -d dataFork
              Path to the file to use as the data fork of the resulting file.  This may be any data file.

     -do dataForkOffset
              Offset from the beginning of the data file from which to start reading the data.  Default is
              the beginning of the file.

     -r resFork
              Path to the file from which to extract resource information.  This must be a data-fork
              resource file (see Notes, below).

     -ro resForkOffset
              Offset from the beginning of the resource file from which to start reading the resource data.
              Default is the beginning of the resource map (byte position 512); note that any other value
              may result in a corrupted resource file when using UnRezWack(1).

     -o outFileName
              Path to the output file to be created.  If the file exists and the -f flag is not provided,
              RezWack will fail with error 2.

     -f       Force overwrite of existing output file.

NOTES
     The HFS and Extended HFS ("HFS+") file systems support two forks for each file in the file system.
     Other file systems may not support multi-fork files, and standard POSIX file system calls do not have
     options to specify which fork to read on a two-fork file.  To use RezWack properly, you must either
     have the resource data in a data-fork resource file, or access the named "rsrc" fork on an HFS or HFS+
     volume.

     Note that on non-HFS volumes, or after using SplitForks(1), the resource data of a file is in a hidden
     file whose name begins with "._".  This is an AppleDouble file that contains the resource data, but it
     is not a resource file and cannot be used with /Developer/Tools/RezWack or other tools that expect a
     data-fork resource file (such as DeRez(1) ).

     To create the resource data in the data fork, use the -useDF flag to Rez(1).  When the resource data is
     in the data fork of a file, you can use the path to the file as the -r argument regardless of the file
     system.

     If the resource data is in the resource fork of a file on a HFS or HFS Extended file system, you can
     access the resource data using a named fork (for example, the resource fork of ~/foo.txt is
     ~/foo.txt/..namedfork/rsrc).

EXAMPLES
           /Developer/Tools/RezWack -d ~/foo -r ~/foo/..namedfork/rsrc -o ~/foo.wak
           /Developer/Tools/RezWack -d ~/foo.txt -r ~/bar.rsrc -o ~/baz.wak

SEE ALSO
     Rez(1), DeRez(1), UnRezWack(1)

Mac OS X                        April 12, 2004                        Mac OS X