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

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:50:33 -0400, "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.

No, you can't make a copy the files on a GS/OS disk using Copy II+.
You need to use a program that supports extended files.  I don't know
of any 8 bit program that will copy extended files although it is
possible to write one.

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