Re: MS-DOS FST? => Resources

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

In article <1993May5.195332.42876@urz.unibas.ch> hochstrasse@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>
> There is just one point I criticize with resources: Prodos 8 returns
> an error when it must read an extended file. Why not just implement
> an optional warning, that you could lose data when handling the file
> on P8 and that's it. P8 programs could use files that just contain
> an rComment or other 'luxurious' resource.

My guess: there isn't enough space left in the language card to
implement ANY support for files with resource forks.

I would have thought that read-only support wouldn't take much code,
but it really is tight - they had to go to 65C02 instructions to be
able to fit the Smartport drive remapping code in 2.0.

Hey, maybe a IIgs-only patch to P8?  :-)
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