Re: Resource Forks on a IIgs

[rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (RANDY)]

In article <jmk3.736911658@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>, jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell) writes:
>>bank 0/1 to handle the resource forks.  I'd write a program to do it
>>myself, except I don't know what format resource forks on disk is, nor do
>>I have any idea where I could find such info.  If I could get that info,
>>I'd be glad to write a Prodos 8 utility or whatever to handle resources.
> 
> Given the existance of GS/OS and the Resource Manager, such a utility
> is a waste of time. If you must, the information, subject to change,
> on how the ProDOS FST handles resource forks and Mac Finder info is in a
> technote, I think one of the ProDOS ones. They're all on ftp.apple.com.

As I have mentioned before I have written an 8 bit program which can read the
data fork out of an extended file and write it to a standard file. I got the
info on how to do this from the ProDOS 8 tech note which describes the new
storage types. I forget the number of the note and don't have it handy now.

Randy
rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu