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== Forks (file, resource) == Unix traditionally has a single [[fork (filesystem)|fork]] where file data is stored. However, some file systems support multiple forks associated with a single file. For example, classic Mac OS [[Hierarchical File System (Apple)|Hierarchical File System]] (HFS) supported a data fork and a ''[[resource fork]]''. Mac OS [[HFS Plus|HFS+]] supports multiple forks, as does Microsoft Windows [[NTFS]] ''alternate data streams''. Most uucoding tools will only handle data from the primary data fork, which can result in a loss of information when encoding/decoding (for example, Windows NTFS file comments are kept in a different fork). Some tools (like the classic Mac OS application [[UUTool]]) solved the problem by concatenating the different forks into one file and differentiating them by file name.
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