Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 265

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 265. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Iron ore, manpower, reserve, fork.

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resource

Iron ore (a natural resource), manpower (a human resource), reserve (a resource generally), fork (a resource fork of a file).

2: Use sedit again for classic customisation thanks to Sumit and Samiran.

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ResEdit

Use sedit again (re-sedit, where sedit is a Unix programmer’s editor) for classic customisation (used to customise apps and more in Classic Mac OS) thanks to Sumit and Samiran (Sumit Bando and Samiran Basak were authors of later versions).

3: Lengthened characteristic object swallowed 1 in X.

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extended attribute

Lengthened (extended) characteristic object (an attribute, e.g. of a deity) swallowed 1 in X (resource forks in riddle 1 were incorporated into Mac OS X as extended attributes).

The common factor

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These are all connected with resources and resource forks in Classic Mac OS.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.