Wendell III wrote:
http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/appleii/appleiiecard.html In reading the above, I see: "It is easy to corrupt Apple II programs with a MacOS resource fork.Without the fork, Apple II files tend to tear up your MacOS hard drive or otherwise cause Norton Utilities and Apple Disk First Aid to register all kinds of funny errors that they want you to fix. Don't allow any MacOS utilities to work on any Apple II programs. This will destroy them. You should run these utilities after you do any conversion as explained in "How to get software off the Internet to run in a real Apple II". You may find that Norton has some work to do. Don't worry too much about anything held in OS X. OS X is much more robust. The safest way to store Apple II programs in any MacOS environment is in disk image format."This seems to imply that my Netatalk shares are not the best place to store Apple II executables? Can anyone comment?
If Apple II resource forks were affected by access over netatalk, then the IIgs would not work. Since it does, I assume that you are safe. YMMV, but I have a significant amount of IIgs specific software on my netatalk share and it all runs just fine.
Just make sure that your ~/AppleVolumes file is setting the right options. Here's mine:
--------------------- cut here ---------------------------- /home/netatalk/a2e a2e casefold:toupper options:prodos # Boot volume must have casefold:toupper options:prodos for network # startup to function properly. /home/A2BOOT A2BOOT casefold:toupper options:prodos /home/netatalk/a2gs a2gs /home/netatalk/macintosh macintosh /home/netatalk/mac_incoming mac_incoming /home/netatalk/more_mac more_mac # For clients running GS/OS or which can handle volumes > 32MB # /home/netatalk/backup BACKUP # For clients running P8 (Desktop based hierarchical backup) /home/netatalk/backup BACKUP casefold:toupper options:prodos -------------------- cut here ------------------------------Note that I have to switch entries for the backup volume depending upon which box I want to use with it.
Steve