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Re: Image Conversion


Greg Buchner wrote:

> How that works is the <three ramdom hi-ascii characters> aren't necessarily
> hi-ascii.
>
> It's the bytes that represent the ProDOS filetypes.
>
> For example, with a ShrinkIt archive...It's filetype is:
> Main:     $E0
> Auxtype:  $8002
>
> So, on the HFS disk, the filetype would end up being
> 'p$E0$80$02'.
>
> The HFS FST does this on the GS end and the Appleshare FST knows how
> to translate what the Mac sends for filetypes.
>
> I'm not sure how random-access text files are stored as a filetype or
> binary files with an adress other than $0000.  Never have experimented
> on that.
>
> Greg B.

Hmmm...  Sorry I asked  :-)  I suppose I'll have to chalk that up on my list of
things I'm not meant to understand.  :-)  Thanks, though.

Will