Re: MS-DOS FST? => Resources

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

In article <1993May6.115821.792@actrix.gen.nz>, dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
> 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.

Well the finder does give you a warning when you add a comment to a file that
you won't be able to use the file running ProDOS 8 unless the file is on a
server volume.
 
> 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.

It doesn't take too much code to read a fork of an extended file in ProDOS 8.
I did it.
 
> Hey, maybe a IIgs-only patch to P8?  :-)

How will that help? The language card isn't any bigger in a IIgs

Randy
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