Re: MS-DOS FST? => Resources

[david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)]

dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
>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.

Does anyone have any idea of what programs (that require a 128k //e or //c)
could still run if the auxiliary language card was taken over for resource
fork handling code? This area has been marked as reserved for ProDOS extensions
from day one (but with the addendum that if /RAM was in place it could be used
by applications).

It may be time for a 128k only version of P8 (now that v2 no longer supports
][ & ][+ (unless they are Zipped and have lower-case)) or at least a loadable
driver for systems with 128k.
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