The ACP is very much a 'Unix' system rather than a 'Mac' system. Unix intrinsics govern the behaviour of OS X disks, and the ACP gives you total access to this logic - something the Finder will oftentimes not even hint at.
You are able to govern protection modes, special user flags, see mounted device info, created Unix symbolic links, create Unix hard links, track Unix symbolic links, and so forth.
You are also able to flag resource forks, see exactly how much of a file size is its resource fork, scan your hard drives for files with resource forks, or scan your drives for files with hard links.
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Version 1.2a includes Xstrings and unfork, a tool to extract forks from files.
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