Re: Forked files and Shrinkit

[Cat Fud <catfud@mailcity.com>]

Greg Buchner wrote:

> In article <396ACAAC.340CFDB1@swbell.net>, rubywand@swbell.net wrote:
>
> >      Not sure. Although the ProType docs do not seem to ever say, flat
> >      out,
> > that ProType expects to work with files on a ProDOS disk, I'm pretty sure
> > it
> > would be a requirement. That would account for two of the failures.
> > Method 1
> > would fail because the file is saved as forked by Mac on a ProDOS disk
> > and
> > not processed by ProType.
>
> Nope, ProType accesses the files on a Mac HFS/HFS+ disk.  It changes the
> filetype on the Mac to the standard used (for those .3 extensions) that
> Apple File Sharing uses when it's storing files from an Apple II.
>
> I have been using ProType on my Mac for quite some time to correctly
> set the file information for Apple II's and to unbinscii and haven't
> ever had any problems.
>
> Greg B.
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    I also use ProType on my Mac to set the correct type for an Apple II
files.  But when I open the files in Shrinkit, sometimes I get a forked file
inside the Shrinkit file, which Shrinkit won't decompress.
    I use ProDos 8 & Shrinkit, and have tried it on an enhanced Apple
IIe and
an Apple IIgs (ROM 01).  Neither of them work on the forked files inside the
Shrinkit file.
    From reading all the messages, I think that I may have to get System
5 or
later for the IIgs.  Any comments on this?

    Cat Fud

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