Re: Filetype $50 question

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

In article <1993Apr6.100230.8645@actrix.gen.nz>, dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:

> OK, but you had to bypass ProDOS-8 to do it (i.e. read blocks directly
> from the disk).  You can't load a Teach file into any standard Apple
> II program that can read text files, but you can load it into a GS/OS
> program that doesn't know about resource forks.

You're forgetting that 8 bit programs can do forked files if they're on a
server. As the finder tells you when you attach a comment to a file, unless
the file is on a server it can't be accessed by a ProDOS 8 application. It
would be more accurate to say they can't be accessed by a ProDOS 8 application
that doesn't do something similar to my homemade program.
 
BTW would anyone be interested in such a program? I have my program implemented
as an ECP8 shell program now but I might turn it into a standalone program if
I have the time and there's any interest.

Randy
rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu