Re: Moving SCSI HDs between Mac/IIe? Forks?

["Ernest" <ernestls@home.com>]

Paul Grammens wrote in message <39a6b662$1@news1.svn.net>...
>
>Ernest <ernestls@home.com> wrote
>
>>
>> FYI. I was able to borrow a IIe card manual, and according to the manual,
>> you can attach an external SCSI HD that was set up for the IIe but you
>have
>> to set it up using the Macintosh system running under the IIe emulator,
>and
>> you can only set it up to use 10meg partitions.
>
>I was just playing with this. I believe you can partition the drive with a
>10 meg ProDos partition, then downsize the Mac partition and increase the
>size of the ProDos partition to 32 megs.
>
> Apparently, this will allow
>> it to run on both the IIe and the Mac, so files can be dumped to the
>> external drive, and then moved to the IIe computer that way.
>>
>> I'll give it a try this weekend, and post a further update on what I
find.
>>
>
>That should work, but I tried with some archives, and it forks the files.
>#!@!
>-Paul

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.

Is there a way to move the archives to the ProDos drive without forking
them?

E