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		wtallis on Nov 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal comput... The NeXTSTEP/Mac solution is to make the GUI treat application bundles as a single unit, while behind the scenes they're a transparent, self-describing directory hierarchy.

AnIdiotOnTheNet on Nov 28, 2020 [–]

Even on the original MacOS there were utilities to allow you to examine and edit the resource fork of an application.

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