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Re: MS-DOS FST?



In article <jmk3.735970979@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell) writes:
>>Why not a write function? Or will that me in 6.0.3? :)
> 
>The problem, and this is one place where the elegance and modularity of GS/OS
>breaks down, is how to deal with filetypes and resource forks.
> 
>Do PC Exchange and/or Access PC write resource forks to MS-DOS disks and do

Yep, it looks like resource forks get put into a seperate "resource.frk"
subdirectory. Everytime I shuffle a disk between a PC and a MAC to convert
files between the two systems for people, the people always are stunned to
 find all the extra
"baggage" on their disks!!

Paul Schultz

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