Re: GS/OS and ProDOS-8 Question...

[Mike <tbogard1@MYhome.com>]

Supertimer wrote:
> 
> "Terence J. Boldt" <apple2@cgocable.net> wrote:
> 
> >Does anyone know for sure whether you can use an 8 bit copy program like
> >Copy II Plus to copy GS/OS from a bunch of floppies to a hard drive?  Will
> >it lose the resources or are the files not stored with separate forks like a
> >Mac?  The reason I ask is that I need to create a GS/OS boot disk on a 1 meg
> >hard drive image inside an 8-bit emulator.  If I can't do this, I'll have to
> >use a real hard drive to make the image, write my own block copy in assembly
> >and reconstruct the hard disk image from 8x  140 KB .DSK images.  Either
> >way, I'm planning on testing my ROM-Drive card booting GS/OS...  Thanks in
> >advance for the help.
> 
> Hi, you can use Copy II Plus to BLOCK COPY (ie. Volume Copy)
> from a 1MB RAM disk to your ROM disk.  You cannot, however,
> FILE copy.  That's because Copy II Plus cannot deal with extended
> files which both GS/OS and MacOS uses.  In fact, I'm not even
> sure Copy II Plus will be able to copy the data fork.  It might just
> generate an error.  I do know that some tasks like rename will
> cause the resource fork to be "forgotten" and that could be a big
> problem because losing a resource fork renders many IIGS program
> and data files useless.

You think doing a Bit Copy will work?

Mike
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