BJ's right, BASIC program in FAQ can't retype $00

[pubpc1@library.ucla.edu]

Nate, the FAQ needs to be revised.  The "Filetype Mismatch"
error that BASIC.System responds with is not due to resource
forks at all.  It is due to BASIC.System's inability to deal
with filetype $00.

After rereading the problems that BJ and others had, I went
ahead and used a ProDOS 8 utility to retype a test file from
TXT to $00 and tried to use your BASIC method to type it
correctly.  I got the same error, so the problem is not the
fault of the Macintosh.  It can't be a resource fork added
by GS/OS either, because P8 file typers can still access the
file.  The problem is specific to filetype $00.  A test file
of the BIN filetype could be typed to TXT from BASIC.System.

Try it yourself and see what happens.  Since BASIC.System
can't handle $00 files, I think it best that you recommend
readers of the FAQ to get BINSCII from Shareware Solutions II
(and for GS/OS users, GSHK and GSCII+ from SSII so that they
can deal with resource forks on an archive and in them).

-Scott G.