Herbie Gluender, in a casual but frightening remark, wrote:

> ...Apple wishes to get rid of resources as soon as possible

This overstates the case. The story, as I understand it, is:

1. Resources will continue to be supported for the foreseeable future.
2. The resource FORK is currently supported in OS X, but may be phased 
out. Instead we will be increasingly encouraged to create 'bundled' 
applications whose resources are contained in the DATA fork of a 
separate resource file.
3. Resource Manager routines (GetResource and so on) work in exactly the 
same way, whether the resources are in the resource fork or the bundled 
resource file.
4. An OS X application cannot write to (i.e. alter) its own resources. 
Apple has been discouraging this practice for many years and has now 
made it illegal.

Robert P.