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Re: Moving SCSI HDs between Mac/IIe? Forks?
- Subject: Re: Moving SCSI HDs between Mac/IIe? Forks?
- From: processoroverclocked@33mhz.cjb.net (Jon Bettencourt)
- Date: 2000/08/25
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Kreative Entertainment Services
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> What does "forking" mean? I assume that means that it's unusable in some
> way, and I've heard the term but I'm not really familiar with it.
On the Mac and IIgs, files can have two "forks," a resource fork and a
data fork. ProDOS 8 files are only supposed to have a data fork. Some ways
of transferring files results in some program or another along the way
sticking a resource fork onto the file.
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