Re: Removing MacOS forks from ProDOS 8 files

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

In article <7a2m76$q61@yuggoth.ucsb.edu>, walt@hugh.physics.ucsb.edu
(Walter Polkosnik) wrote:

> I have a IIgs I'm trying to transfer some files to. I don't have a modem or
> null cable, all I've got is a ProDOS 8 boot disk. I've been trying to use
> the MacOS capability to read/write ProDOS 8 3.5" disks, but I've hit the
> problem of the Mac adding resource forks to files that makes them
> unreadable under ProDOS 8. I've tried ProTYPE, and it successfully decodes
> BinSCII files (I successfuly used it to get Shrinkit 3.4 running).
> 
> ProTYPE also purports to automatically remove resource forks from .SHK
> files, but it doesn't seem to be successful in that aspect. I've downloaded
> some .shk's, but Shrinkit won't read the file because it's still forked
> (even though I ran it through ProTYPE). I ran files through ProTYPE both
> before and after dragging to floppy and neither seemed to work. 
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to change the filetype on the Mac to
> TEXT or BINA for ProTYPE to work correctly? Does ProTYPE actually do what
> it purports to? If it doesn't, what other program can I use to remove
> resource forks? 
This may just be me, but as far as I know the MacOS will not just
arbitrarily add resource forks to files when you access them with the
ProDOS MacOS file system extension in the finder...I mean, the only things
which usually add resource forks are things which need a resource fork
(like if you open something without one in ResEdit, or use something which
saves data into the resfork like a sound program)
Are you sure that the ShrinkIt archives do not contain GS resource forks?
ShrinkIt archives made with GS-ShrinkIt can contain resources and will
only be expandable on the IIgs (and maybe in Shrink II under MacOS I
guess)
hmm.