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A stream of data that can be opened and accessed individually under a common filename. For example, the Macintosh Standard and Extended file systems store a separate “data” fork and a “resource” fork as part of every file; data in each fork can be accessed and manipulated independently of the other. Definition Source


Also see: Resource Fork