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Re: Backup

In article <1994Jan12.182806.9040@pro-ren.cts.com>
edward@pro-ren.cts.com (Edward Floden) writes:
> 
> Backup II (I believe that's the application to which you're referring) can
> support forked files? How? It's a ProDOS 8 application which does file
> backups, not an image backup, and ProDOS 8 can't handle forked files.

Backup II 2.0 (and probably 1.0) bypasses ProDOS and does direct block
reads (and probably writes).  It certainly does this on the backup
media, and for files with resource forks.

I suspect that Backup II will also support backing up a "Pascal Area"
(storage type $04) which is used with the Apple II Pascal ProFile
manager.  ProDOS-8 cannot deal with this storage type either.
-- 
David Empson                                                               
dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz                                                
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