Except that in the windows example you gave the .rsrc section is part of the main data stream.  It is counted in the file&#x27;s size when doing a dir command.  When the file is copied by all command line and shell tools or sent over the internet the data in the .rsrc section is copied&#x2F;sent just like all the other data in the exe&#x2F;dll.<p>None of this is true for the resource fork in the Mac case.