Re: Mac d/l for Apple2 GS forked files need help

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...

>spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>>    I thought I might point out while you cannot directly 
>>manipulate forked files (created by GS/OS or MacOS) from 
>>within ProDOS 8, you can use an 8-bit Apple II application 
>>to split the resource fork and data fork into two separate
>>files. Off hand I don't recall the name, but it may have
>>been called "Splitter" or something close to that name.
> 
>You are right!  The program is called A2FX and it works by
>reading HFS disks and transferring the files to a ProDOS
>disk/partition as either split data and resource files, data
>fork only, resource fork only, or AppleSingle or AppleDouble
>files.  The HFS disk can even be a hard disk.

    No. The program is called "Fork Splitter" and has only a
single function--to take a forked file and break it into two
separate files (one file will contain what was the resource
fork, the other the data fork). Once the process is complete,
you can do what you like with the files under ProDOS 8 as it
("it" now being two files) will no longer contain a fork.

    HFSLink and A2FX are another example of splitting up a
forked file, however it only does that when reading files
off an _HFS_ volume. Fork Splitter works on ProDOS volumes
and cannot even read HFS. I would assume FS was primarily
written for moving GS/OS files to ProDOS, but it should work
equally as well on HFS files (once on a ProDOS volume, the
machine doesn't know the difference, filetypes aside).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca