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Re:The -a to -z of Command-Line Options (2003) by jandrese on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:53PM (#18650671)
Eh, lots of stuff would be just stuffed into an appropriate resource and if you wanted to hack it you would use ResEdit.

I miss ResEdit. Pretty much every Mac app in the day used the standard system for managing their resources, so you could pick apart anything with ease using ResEdit. I don't know of any modern equivalent for Unix/Windows/Mac programs.

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Re:The -a to -z of Command-Line Options (2003) by derefr on Friday December 14, 2018 @03:40PM (#18684502)
I would think that the modern macOS equivalent to the "resource fork" is simply an app bundle's Resources folder.

Also, regarding "burned-in configuration" resources—those are now found in the app bundle's Info.plist :)

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