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Re: Moving SCSI HDs between Mac/IIe? Forks?
- Subject: Re: Moving SCSI HDs between Mac/IIe? Forks?
- From: "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
- Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 01:40:00 GMT
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Ernest <ernestls@home.com> wrote
>
> What does "forking" mean? I assume that means that it's unusable in some
> way, and I've heard the term but I'm not really familiar with it.
>
I see Jon B. has given a good explanation of forked files, so I won't
repeat.
> Is there a way to move the archives to the ProDos drive without forking
> them?
>
Not that I know of, if a Mac is involved. If you have a PC, though, you can
use comm programs on the PC and A2, and a null modem cable to transfer
files. The problem with forked archive files is that Shrinkit can't deal
with them, though Shrinkit GS can. The faq covers this pretty well, as well
as the other Mac headache, file types.
-Paul