Re: Sick And Tired of SHK

[apple2pd@garp3.icaen.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian)]

In article <B5ED9DDF.B621%sheppy@sheppyware.net>,
Eric Shepherd  <sheppy@sheppyware.net> wrote:
>in article 39C83CFD.5DF83052@wanadoo.nl, ruud.dingemans at
>ruud.dingemans@wanadoo.nl wrote on 9/19/00 9:28 PM:
>
>> Why doesn't Shrinkit want to unpack files that came from a Mac?
>> 
>> It always gives me a 'can't open forked file' error, no matter what I try.
>
>Wayne's exactly right.  Mac OS adds a resource fork to files you write to a
>ProDOS disk.  You need to either use GS-ShrinkIt to unpack the files (it can
>handle forked files), or use a utility on the Apple II that will strip the
>resource fork off the file before feeding it to your 8-bit ShrinkIt program.
>

I respectfully disagree, at least in some situations.  I write files to a
ProDOS disk under MacOS8.5 on a PPC61xx (xx=14?) and read them just fine
on my IIGS under P8.  That is ProDOS (P8), not GS/OS.  Same is true from
my PPC8150 (MacOS8.5).  Caveat:  these are classic Appleworks5.1 files and
I use DejaII on the Mac, and I'm not sure MacOS is used the same as with
other applications under MacOS, including the finder.  But at least under
some situations MacOS does NOT write resource forks to files on a ProDOS
disk.  However, if the file has a resource fork on the Mac, it will also
have one on the ProDOS disk.  But I don't think MacOS adds one when
writing to a ProDOS disk.  My problems with Mac files is trying to get one
created _without_ a resource fork.  That can be a challenge! 

  --Steve

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)