Hello - I have a PowerBook G3 running OS 9.1, and am planning to only run 9.1 natively. Now that I've installed OS 9.1 and booted it up, etc, I'm seeing a "mach.sym" fiile in the System folder.
Since it seems like this file should be invisible, I checked into it and found (via
https://www.aelius.com/njh/macos9/#macmachbegone) that "every time Mac OS X starts up it recreates the 'mach' and 'mach.sym' files and they become visible next time you boot Mac OS 9".
Since I don't plan to ever boot into OS X on this computer, I figure the easiest thing would be to hide it (rather than install MacMachBegone!). So I'm following the instructions to hide 'mach.sym' with ResEdit using the instructions at
https://kb.iu.edu/d/adgd ...
However, when I open that file with ResEdit, I see this prompt: The file 'mach.sym' has no resource fork. Opening it will add one. Do you wish to open it?
Which (finally) brings me to the question: Should I open this file and create a resource fork, or not? Offhand, it seems like doing so will create something that wouldn't normally occur ... And I don't want to create additional files on this computer if they're not needed. Perhaps I should use MacMachBegone! (or do something else) instead??
The main objective is to keep this computer as lean as possible with OS 9, and since that web page doesn't mention anything about a resource fork I wanted to double-check this before proceeding.
Thanks for your input,
Jim