Re: Filetype $50 question

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

rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (RANDY) writes:
> dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
> > You can't read files with resource forks from a ProDOS-8 program.
> 
> Well, this isn't totally true. I wrote myself an 8 bit program that reads the
> data fork out of an extended file and writes it into a standard file.

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.

There's no problem if you've extracted the data fork into another file,
but it isn't a Teach file any more.
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