Re: Apple Tools Disk

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <30bh1e$co6@condor.ic.net>, Shawn Platkus <platkus@ic.net> wrote:
> I'd just talked to The Byte Works on Fri. to check on the status of the
> Apple Tools Disk that I'd ordered way back a long time ago with the 
> System 6.0.1 reference, and they said that Apple had finally given them
> the word that there wasn't going to be an Apple Tools Disk.  The said
> that they were in the process of putting together a letter to all who had
> ordered it.
> 
> Anyone know what the Apple Tools Disk was suppose to contain.  I was hoping
> for an update to GSBug among other stuff...

Assuming it was a re-release of the "APW Tools and Interfaces 1.1"
Disk, with updated versions, it would have included the following:

Canon, Compact, CrunchIIgs, DeRez, DiskCheck, DumpObj, Duplicate,
Equal, Express, Files, Join, LinkIIgs, MakeBin, MakeDirect, MakeLib,
ResEqual, Rez, Search.

There were also include files for Rez, versions of the SysCmnd and
SysErrs files (including a resource fork with error messages used by
the utilities), and M16.Util2 - Apple's utility macros for ORCA/M.

Many of these have already appeared in ORCA/M 2.0.  The only major
omission is LinkIIgs, which is a port of the MPW IIgs cross-linker.
It supports many features of OMF that are not handled by the ORCA
linker, including Run Time Libraries.

Files is a revised "catalog" command.  Duplicate supports copying only
the data or resource fork.  Join concatenates files.  ResEqual
compares resource forks on a resource-by-resource basis.  Some of the
other utilities are Apple's versions, which are different to Byte Works
versions (DumpObj and MakeLib are substantially different, and Apple's
versions are less buggy).
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David Empson
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