[ot?] How does OSX handle icons?

[Natalia Portillo]

It depends.

If they are classic icons they are stored as a bitmap resource in the
resource fork (usually invisible under linux, is not very useful outside
MacOS).

If they are new OS X icons they are .tiff inside a folder.

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 23:19, Sebastian Raible wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been downloading a bunch of OSX iconsets from resexcellence.com,
> after having extracted them etc., I copied them to my linux box.
> Wether I access the files on my linux partition or directly through the
> hfs+-kernel driver, those icon files list as 0K.
> When I list them under osx, they have about 60K each.
> How does OSX handle those files?
> This system is a total mystery to me everyday again :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Sebastian