let's say, not entirely hypothetically, that we have a ResEdit TMPL. We want to convert it to an MPW Rez types file, so we can DeRez resources instead of mess with the GUI editor. Anyone got a tool handy for this?

#classicmac #lazyweb #marchintosh

@atax1a that is a thing that I wanted to build for fun at one point, but I stopped after finishing most of the required groundwork (as you do). I wrote some Kaitai Struct specs for parsing resource forks and the TMPL resource format, but never got around to writing an actual TMPL converter. idk if this is in any way useful for what you're trying to do

https://formats.kaitai.io/resource_fork/
https://github.com/dgelessus/resource_fork.ksy/blob/master/src/resources/resedit_template_resource.ksy

Macintosh resource fork data format spec for Kaitai Struct

Kaitai Struct is a formal language for binary format specification that can be compiled into parser code

@dgelessus thanks!